Quotes 221 till 240 of 317.
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Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.
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Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.
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Taste is tiring like good company.
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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word ''satiety.''
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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.
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The advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.
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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
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The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.
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The essence of a man is found in his faults.
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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
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The images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
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