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- Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain…
- All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain and languor; it's like spending this year part of next year's revenue.
- Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please…
- If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what…
- All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any…
- I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the…
- All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
- It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and…
- I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land,…
- All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.
- In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please…
- Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
- May you live all the days of your life.
- When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
- For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
- Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one…
- The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
- It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to…
- I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but…
- Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or…
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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