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May Quotes by Joseph Epstein
- In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
- Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with entire…
- I am not merely a habitual quoter but an incorrigible one. I am, I may as well face it, more quotatious than an old stock-market…
- While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page without having to…
- The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong