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Triumphs against the natural order of living exact unforeseen payments. At the same time that man attempts to straighten a crooked nature, he is striving…

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Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.
In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing…
Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until…
The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man; and the answer to…
No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.
The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.
The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that…
Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of…
The typical modern has the look of the hunted.
Respecters of private property are really obligated to oppose much that is done today in the name of private enterprise, for corporate…
The hero can never be a relativist.
The disappearance of the heroic ideal is always accompanied by the growth of commercialism. There is a cause-and-effect relationship here, for the…

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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding. — James Rachels
Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the… — Laozi
Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive… — P.G. Wodehouse
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing. — Thomas Jefferson
Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and… — Anne Lamott
Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind. — Logan Pearsall Smith
Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons. — Marcel Proust

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