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Them Quotes by Yukio Mishima
- However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their…
- When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While…
- …the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing them to others.…
- As usual, it occurred to me that words were the only thing that could possibly save me from this situation. This was a characteristic misunderstanding…
- The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and, when…
- Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get,…
- I cried sobbingly until at last those visions reeking with blood came to comfort me. And then I surrendered myself to them, to those deplorably…
- I am one who has always been interested only in the edges of the body and the spirit, the outlying regions of the body and…
- To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It makes their spirits…
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
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- 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
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