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- Our mind is where our pleasure is, our heart is where our treasure is, our love is where our life is, but all these, our…
- Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends.
- The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side…
- Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul; as physicians judge…
- Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make wider roads, but…
- Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the…
- The Bible is to us what the star was to the wise men; but if we spend all our time in gazing upon it, observing…
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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