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- Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that…
- What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.
- Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.
- He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
- A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not…
- Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
- A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent…
- No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does
- At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians…
- An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.
- An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.
- The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always…
- The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge…
- Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves…
- If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble…
- When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency,…
- There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the…
- In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.
- Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
- Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
- Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
- He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
- Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
- There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
- Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful…
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- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
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- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
- No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy… — Francis of Assisi
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi