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Bears Quotes by Simone Weil
- Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms...
- The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood…
- A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I… — Teresa of Avila
- There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton
- Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. — Miguel de Cervantes
- I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those… — Abraham Lincoln
- Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. — Marcus Aurelius