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Must Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the…
- Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
- In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he…
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — 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
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle