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- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
- If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent…
- He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.
- If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
- But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but…
- The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
- And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.
- Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.
- When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit;…
- Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.
- No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along,…
- The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm.…
- There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.
- Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for
- To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed…
- There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different;…
- And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for…
- I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never…
- The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual…
- That man is idle who can do something better.
- The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and…
- To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
- Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
- For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
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