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- All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being…
- The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
- If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme…
- He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We…
- Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.
- We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one
- It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.
- All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.
- The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
- All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free
- All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
- Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most…
- All sects differ, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God
- The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party,…
- Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
- Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
- Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great…
- All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
- All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws
- Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.
- Once the people begin to reason, all is lost
- Shakespeare, who was considered the English Corneille, flourished at about the time of Lope de Vega. He had a strong and fertile genius, full of…
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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