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128558 quotes by 30354 authors
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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances,…
— Saint Augustine
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
— Saint Augustine
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
— Saint Augustine
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
— Aaliyah
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are…
— Saint Augustine
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as…
— Marcus Aurelius
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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may…
— Jane Austen
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
— Jane Austen
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One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
— Jane Austen
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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
— Jane Austen
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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
— Jane Austen
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
— Jane Austen
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All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however…
— Paul Auster
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All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
— Paul Auster
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