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- A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing…
- Spring appears and we are once more children.
- To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare…
- Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common…
- Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
- The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
- The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will…
- For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should…
- Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well, it…
- Ah, Sir, a novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies, at another…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle