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- Most men die at 25, we just don't bury them until they are 70.
- Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.
- Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can…
- Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we should be obliged…
- I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons;…
- If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes, which should be…
- Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be…
- There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's…
- We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing good to our…
- Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But there are two…
- If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?
- There remain a few people in NASA who are there to accomplish great things; but most of NASA now consists of the people who accomplished…
- We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.
- That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more…
- To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual…
- When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either…
- And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us…
- How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
- I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of…
- Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
- It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
- Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
- I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to…
- He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster