Quotes 4321 till 4340 of 10505.
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It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.
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It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
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It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.
Down and Out in Paris and London Ch. 33 -
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
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It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. It is obviously much easier to find inhabitants for an inferno or even a purgatorio.
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It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
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It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.
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It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.
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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.
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It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
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