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Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival. — Honore de Balzac
Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much. — Marcel Proust
"Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time... — Janet Morris
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to… — Karl Kraus
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the… — Ezra Pound
Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the blind spot would see if… — Daniel Gilbert
Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else. — Jean de la Bruyere
His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth. — William Shakespeare
The worst tragedy is that this uncontrolled mind steals our consciousness away from Krishna and that is the beginning, the essence of all suffering. — Radhanath Swami
Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root,… — Leigh Hunt
The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me… — James Nasmyth
We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society. — John Naisbitt
You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches. — Frank Deford
It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The city is recruited from the country. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
LIGHT FROM WITHIN my friend, cancer got you damn it: you had it beat for seven years at least. how did it come back? Why… — Wallace Stevens
Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission. — Thomas Jefferson
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest… — Thomas Jefferson
It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a… — Samuel Johnson
From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,… — Robert Burns
A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What… — Anton Chekhov
EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc. — Ambrose Bierce

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