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Us Quotes by Laurence Sterne
- Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us…
- Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
- Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a…
- Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
- I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of my character, and…
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- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong