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Life Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial and industrial associations…
- Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has…
- Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations...In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is…
- Nothing is more annoying in the ordinary intercourse of life than this irritable patriotism of the Americans. A foreigner will gladly agree to praise much…
- The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages,…
- Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.
- Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time…
- Life is to be entered upon with courage.
- The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
- Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
- What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and…
- It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life. For my part, I should be…
- Life is to entered upon with courage.
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle