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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress,… — Oscar Wilde
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you… — Robert Louis Stevenson
In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do. — W. Somerset Maugham
It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it. — Thomas Carlyle
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man. — W. Somerset Maugham
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him. — Frank Moore Colby
Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. — Eric Hoffer
If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing. — James Boswell
We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. — Walter Savage Landor
To be believed make the truth unbelievable. — Napoleon Bonaparte
If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all. — John F. Kennedy
We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together, and considered what… — John Selden
The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him. — E. W. Howe
In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature all systems are breaking down,… — George Carlin
When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would like to make… — George Carlin
For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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