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- We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.
- Custom is almost a second nature.
- There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
- Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.
- When the candles are out all women are fair.
- Either is both, and Both is neither.
- A fool cannot hold his tongue.
- I see the cure is not worth the pain.
- Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.
- I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.
- Come back with your shield - or on it
- That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us.
- For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
- Instead of using medicine, better fast today.
- Philosophy is an act of living.
- It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
- Reason speaks and feeling bites
- Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!
- When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself.
- Words will build no walls.
- To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.
- He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.
- Beauty is the flower of virtue.
- Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.
- Character is inured habit.
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
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- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
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