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- Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.
- Tiffany has been apprenticing as a witch by visiting people in need with her mentor. After meeting with one particularly sad case, she tells her…
- There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.
- You did what you were told or you didn't get paid, and if things went wrong it wasn't your problem. It was the fault of…
- She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy…
- Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them
- They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and…
- The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
- Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.
- Progress just means bad things happen faster.
- If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who…
- It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then…
- Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT." Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.
- at least nine-tenths of all the original reality ever created lies outside the multiverse, and since the multiverse by definition includes absolutely everything that is…
- Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.
- You are in favour of the common people?” said Dragon mildly. The common people?” said Vimes. “They’re nothing special. They’re no different from the rich…
- When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.
- They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners…
- The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see?…
- They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the job of looking…
- The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the…
- I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in it. Told him…
- Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human.
- When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.
- Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must…
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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
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- 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