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Us Quotes by Philip Larkin
- What will survive of us is love.
- Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude…
- How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.
- What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. Theyare to be happy in: Where can…
- Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, And age, and…
- What you did, any of us might. And saying so I see our difference: Not your aplomb (I used mine to sit tight), But fancying…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — 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
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- 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