Quotes 161 till 180 of 206.
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There's no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.
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There's reason good, that you good laws should make:
Men's manners ne'er were viler, for your sake.The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio XXIV, To The Parliament, lines 1-2. -
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.
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To be content with life - or to live merrily, rather -all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
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To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.
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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
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To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated.
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
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To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.
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Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. As long as combat was desirable as the source of honor and glory, the knight had no wish to share it with the commoner, even for the sake of success.
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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
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We forgive principally for our own sake, so that we may cease to bear the burden of rancour.
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We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.
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