Sake Quotes

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There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain. — Miguel de Cervantes
... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which… — Jean de la Bruyere
When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in… — Aristotle
It is a truism that as long as man loves but himself and his art he can never attain to the full measure of manhood… — Percy Jewett Burrell
I'm not sure I had ever written a fan letter before to a poet I had not met, but that's what I did when I… — Thom Gunn
Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through the value you… — Pindar
I am preparing myself for death. When I go to sleep, I try to keep myself smiling. So that when I die, I have a… — Zohra Sehgal
Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as… — Walter Lippmann
The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems,… — Plato
Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in… — Aristotle
Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our… — Joshua Foer
Women don't seek power for its own sake, but to make a difference and overcome each challenge — Kathleen Wynne
To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving position or attracting… — John Ruskin
You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's… — Robert Breault
A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch. — Robert Breault
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by… — Georg Simmel
A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own memory sake, into… — Roger Ascham
Give us something else; give us something new; for Heaven's sake give us something bad, so long as we feel we are alive and active… — Carl Nielsen
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others. — Timothy Keller
Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I have never designed a language for its own sake. — Niklaus Wirth

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