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Becomes Quotes by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
- Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful.
- With poverty everything becomes frightful.
- That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.
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- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
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- Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. — Saint Augustine
- The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius
- Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life. — Paul Auster
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila
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- A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too… — Sai Baba
- At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. — Charles Babbage
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- There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge,… — Charles Babbage
- In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats… — Michelle Bachelet