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- Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom…
- Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
- Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.
- There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is…
- Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.
- Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.
- The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
- If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all;…
- The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
- The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we…
- No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost…
- By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.
- My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.
- We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
- With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce…
- Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of…
- In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted…
- Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
- Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none of…
- Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of…
- The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform…
- In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin,…
- The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and…
- It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing…
- Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle