"Conceit causes more conversation than wit." — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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• No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our… — Hannah Arendt
• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
• Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause… — Mahmoud Abbas
• In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial. — Richard Armour
• So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the… — Antonin Artaud
• I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate. — Rowan Atkinson
• It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. — Saint Augustine
• How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. — Marcus Aurelius
• We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the… — Marcus Aurelius
• A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the… — Irving Babbitt
• The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not… — Edward Bach
• During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So… — Michelle Bachelet

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