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- Early in life, the world divides crudely into those who have had sex and those who haven't. Later, into those who have known love, and…
- In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work…
- I have at times tried to imagine the despair which leads to suicide, attempted to conjure up the slew and slop of darkness in which…
- Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where…
- We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as far as the…
- People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour