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Possessed Quotes by Plutarch
- No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
- And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing…
- ... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his…
- I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with…
More Possessed Quotes
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. — Charles Baudelaire
- Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies… — Joseph Addison
- A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed… — Joseph Addison
- I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words,… — Joseph Addison
- Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. — Edmund Burke
- Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. — Dale Carnegie