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- When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the…
- Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends,…
- We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
- A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.
- It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this pill in your beer it…
- No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will…
- In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.
- In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt.
- Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to insure…
- We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to…
- There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.
- The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the…
- All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
- There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such…
- There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we…
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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