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Things Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee
- We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow…
- Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]
- Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them in particular, what we compare them…
- The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by…
- An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.
- I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking too closely into…
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle