Sake Quotes

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With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of… — Benjamin Franklin
A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet sake… — James Russell Lowell
In that disputable point of persecuting men for conscience sake, I see such dreadful consequences rising, I would be as fully convinced of the truth… — Joseph Addison
Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished… — David Lloyd George
For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum — Thomas Jefferson
People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake. — William Hazlitt
A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable… — Henry Fielding
it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all… — Jane Austen
I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them. — Epicurus
for Christ's sake, were the mountains blue, then chuck on some blue and don't go telling me that it was a blue a bit like… — Paul Gauguin
Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training. — Jane Haddam
For little children everywhere A joyous season still we make; We bring our precious gifts to them, Even for the dear child Jesus' sake. — Phoebe Cary
Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake. — Samuel Richardson
Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't'; I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired. — Kenneth Grahame
PERFORM all acts with as much love as you would offer God. In Truth, you eat for the satisfaction of the I in you and… — Sathya Sai Baba
The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its… — Louis Aragon
Sensation is an element of what I do, and why not? It's not sensational for the sake of being sensational, but it's sensational art... It's… — Damien Hirst
I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more… — Gustave Courbet
The open mode is a mood in which curiosity for its own sake can operate, because we're not under pressure to get a specific thing… — John Cleese
If you want to live in this world, doing the duty of life, knowing the blessings of it, doing your work heartily, and yet not… — Alexander MacLaren
And do you agree with me, that the first condition of an artist should be to bear respect toward what is great, and to bow… — Felix Mendelssohn

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