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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely… — Wystan Hugh Auden
On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I… — John James Audubon
The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other… — Saint Augustine
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart. — Saint Augustine
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but… — Saint Augustine
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. — Saint Augustine
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was… — Saint Augustine
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before. — Saint Augustine
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. — Marcus Aurelius
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against… — Marcus Aurelius
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The… — Marcus Aurelius
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you… — Marcus Aurelius
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. — Marcus Aurelius
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come… — Marcus Aurelius

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