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He Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
- Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
- You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God.…
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- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
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- Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
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- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
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