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As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over.... So one can be grown up at seven. Then, I believe most… — Eugene Ionesco
One or another man, liberated or cursed, suddenly sees-but even this man sees rarely-that all we are is what we aren't, that we fool ourselves… — Fernando Pessoa
If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you… — Seneca the Younger
The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these… — Plutarch
I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just… — Jonathan Ive
Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it. — Leo Tolstoy
In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example… — Cyrano de Bergerac
If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some… — Immanuel Kant
...monetary exchanges have interesting things in common; Gresham's law, if true, says what one of these interesting things is. But what is interesting about monetary… — Jerry Fodor
...if it isn't literally true that my wanting is causally responsible for my reaching, and my itching is causally responsible for my scratching, and my… — Jerry Fodor
Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong… — Thomas Jefferson
What is true belongs to me! — Seneca the Younger
True virtue is life under the direction of reason. — Baruch Spinoza
True time is four-dimensional. — Martin Heidegger
Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. — Rene Descartes
It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it. — Brooks Johnson
Exercise and sports are greatly affected by what goes into the mind, and the mind is greatly affected by sports and exercise as well. This… — Grete Waitz
Seek and find the freedom of the spirit, for where there is true freedom, there is peace, and where there is peace, there is love,and… — Eileen Caddy
I was shown a fledgling learning to fly. It's first efforts were very feeble. But as it used its wings more and more, they became… — Eileen Caddy
In His plan there are no true endings. Only everlasting beginnings. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
True love is a process. True love requires personal action. — Marvin J. Ashton
The gospel teaches us that true beauty is more than skin-deep. A young woman whose countenance is aglow with both happiness and virtue radiates inner… — Lynn G. Robbins
If we, like the Savior, have the faith to put our trust in our Father in Heaven, to submit to His will, the true spirit… — Rex D. Pinegar
To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be… — Alan Watts
Prayer, fasting, vigils, and all other Christian practices, however good they may be in themselves, certainly do not constitute the aim of our Christian life:… — Seraphim of Sarov

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