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- Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every…
- They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then…
- At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the…
- Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
- The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
- As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the…
- Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and other…
- I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the…
- But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
- Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
- What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only…
- Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him…
- Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the…
- He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not…
- The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle…
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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