"Humankind's chief fault is that they have so……" — Jean Paul
"Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones."
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99 Quotes by Jean Paul
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Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.
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The Infinate has sowed His name in the heavens in burning stars, but on earth He has sowed His name…
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The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking…
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Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as…
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What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.
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Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.
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Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.
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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of…
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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give…
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In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is…
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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the…
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The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that…
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense,…
— Joseph Addison
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The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
— Alfred Adler
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the…
— Joe Biden
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Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
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Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the…
— William Blake
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The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
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