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Things Quotes by Isak Dinesen
- It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their…
- There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned
- Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things…
- When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves…
- It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more…
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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