Quotes 281 till 300 of 317.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
Original:Dolendi modus, timendi non item.
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Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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Virtue is a rich stone, best plain set.
Essays: Of Beauty -
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
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What a man most enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them.
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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
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What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.
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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Where everything is bad, it must be good to know the worst.
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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