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Thus Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he…
- We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.
- A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state,…
- In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may…
- In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world…
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- It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — Hannah Arendt
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. — Gaston Bachelard
- If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus… — Abu Bakr
- Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world,… — Honore de Balzac
- Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. — Dave Barry
- It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling. — Pierre Bayle
- The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.' — Ludwig van Beethoven
- We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector,… — Carol Bellamy
- Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an… — Pope Benedict XVI