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- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
- When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"
- I married beneath me. All women do.
- Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I…
- It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.
- I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now…
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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