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- So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master…
- Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read and…
- All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
- Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but…
- All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and…
- In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
- One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very…
- Human nature is above all things lazy.
- There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many…
- Humankind above all is lazy.
- Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very…
- Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice…
- For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come…
- Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
- For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must…
- Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all…
- If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the…
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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