Quotes 1321 till 1340 of 1785.
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The liar's punishment, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
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The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.
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The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
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The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
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The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!
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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
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The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.
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The main motive for 'nonattachment' is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.
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The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
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The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
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The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.
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The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
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The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
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The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
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The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.
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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
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