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Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is… — Seneca the Younger
I try to neutralize my figures; I want them to be mythic and timeless. I want them to exist beyond time. I've used the skull… — Joyce Tenneson
Outlawed, but not alone, for Love Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you. — Alfred Noyes
I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and… — Joseph Joubert
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not… — Seneca the Younger
A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the… — Plato
Death will be so quick to swoop on you; Gather merit till that moment comes! Wait till then to banish laziness? Then there'll be no… — Shantideva
[The proposed establishment] will have a . . . tendency to banish our Citizens. . . . To superadd a fresh motive to emigration by… — James Madison
Banish the words 'I can't' from your vocabulary. Remember: If 'can't' equals 'won't', 'can' equals 'will. — Phyllis George
Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't… — Kurt Vonnegut
I start with fear. It comes in so many forms. When I write, some of the fear goes away. So I write into the fear,… — Mat Johnson
Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and… — Horace
Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them. — Mark Twain
Liquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home. — William Carlos Williams
There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe… — Vincent Van Gogh
I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a lawsuit. It would do the cause much good.… — Carter G. Woodson
Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if there could be… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source. — Euripides
I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done… — Mahatma Gandhi
The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of… — David O. McKay
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and… — Agnes Repplier
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how… — Arthur Schopenhauer
You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'?… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you… — Robert Green Ingersoll
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. — John Ruskin

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