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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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For love deceives the best of woman kind.
— Homer
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That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress…
— Hugh Nibley
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Color deceives continuously.
— Josef Albers
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Let weak and frail man come here suppliantly to adore the Sacrament of Christ, not to discuss high things, or wish to…
— Paul of the Cross
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Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not
— Gorgias
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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
— Plato
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
— Plato
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After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live…
— John Edward
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The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for…
— Alma Gluck
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