"Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect" — George Sand
"Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect"
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George Sand
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98 Quotes by George Sand
George Sand has 98 quotes on this site.
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Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is…
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One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double.…
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It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and…
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A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown…
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Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.
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Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us…
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Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all…
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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the…
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The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes...
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I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent…
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If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans.…
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Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
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The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance…
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us…
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The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.
— Jeff Bridges
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In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If…
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No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the…
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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
— Luc de Clapiers
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