"Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not." — Pierre Corneille

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• The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use… — W. Somerset Maugham
• A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself… — Ida B. Wells
• Life only avails, not the having lived. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. He should strive to express his thought and not the… — Albert Pinkham Ryder
• What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein? — Albert Pinkham Ryder
• How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone… — Alexander Pope
• When the Superior Man eats he does not try to stuff himself; at rest he does not seek perfect comfort;… — Confucius
• The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor… — Edward Bernays
• Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he,… — Aeschylus
• ... if a man prays God for some virtue, and at the same time gives himself up to negligence, acquiring… — Lorenzo Scupoli
• There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do… — Rumi

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