Quotes with good-fortune

Quotes 1741 till 1760 of 2950.

• No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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• No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

  Bertolt Brecht
  German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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• No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

  Frederick W. Robertson
  English divine (1816 - 1853)
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• No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

  Cesare Pavese
  Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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• No one had written a good long life of Schubert. He had lived long in music and short in life.

  Bernard Malamud
  American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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• No one is born a good citizen or a good democrat or a good leader; it takes time and education.

  Kofi Annan
  Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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• No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

  Euripides
  Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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• No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

  John Mason Brown
  American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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• No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well.

  Margaret Thatcher
  British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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• No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.

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• No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.

  James A. Froude
  British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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• No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

  Annie Besant
  British socialist, activist and writer (1847 - 1933)
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• No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

  André Gide
  French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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• No wise person should make known the loss of fortune, any malpractice in their house, his being cheated, or having been disgraced.

  Hitopadesa
  Indian text in Sanskrit
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• Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

  Pamela Fanciulla, Act I, Scene 6

  Carlo Goldoni
  Italian playwright (1707 - 1793)
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• Nobody does good to men with impunity.

  Auguste Rodin
  French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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• None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

  John Milton
  English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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• Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.

  George Santayana
  Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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• Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

  Plutarch
  Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• characterize
• lamentations
• enthusiasm
• philosophy
• samaritan
• nicknames

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