"When the snipe and the mussel struggle, the……" — Robert Greene
"When the snipe and the mussel struggle, the fisherman gets the benefit. Ancient Chinese saying"
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108 Quotes by Robert Greene
Robert Greene has 108 quotes on this site.
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Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind…
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The quiet mind is richer than a crown....Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes…
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People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.
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Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative…
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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and…
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If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect your…
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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone…
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There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.
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Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are…
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More Ancient Quotes
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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
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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our…
— Margaret Atwood
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
— Saint Augustine
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Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,…
— Diane Ackerman
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar…
— Enid Bagnold
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships,…
— Andrew Bernstein
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To…
— Wendell Berry
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My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted…
— Annie Besant
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
— Annie Besant
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
— Ambrose Bierce
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