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- Knowledge is power-and power of one sort or another is the secret lust of human souls; and here is, beside the sense of exploration, the…
- Women are so enigmatical – some in everything – all in matters of the heart. Don't they sometimes actually admire what is repulsive?...
- I can not help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn will draw near to others, and learn the rapture of…
- For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all day. I felt…
- I remember everything about it—with an effort. I see it all, as divers see what is going on above them, through a medium, dense, rippling,…
- What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only,…
- Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear 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