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- The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or…
- An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.
- The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies…
- All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.
- Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid…
- All our acts have sacramental possibilities.
- The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.
- Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
- Christmas... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
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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