Quotes with confers

  • Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

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  • Horace You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Lord Greville A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.
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  • René Daumal Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson He is great who confers the most benefits.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Tertullian He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
    Tertullian
    Roman Christian author from Carthage (160 - 230)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false; a gift confers no rights.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bayard Rustin When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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