Quotes 121 till 140 of 2950.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.
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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.
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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
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The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods
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The best is the enemy of the good.
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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
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The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in the democratic process.
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
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The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
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The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.
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The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
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The key to good management is keeping the nine guys who hate your guts away from the nine guys who haven't made up their minds.
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