Quotes 561 till 580 of 795.
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The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
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The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
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The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
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The greatest service we can do for another is to help him to help himself.
The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Trine -
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
Pensees -
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
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The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
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The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.
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The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
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The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.
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The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.
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The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing ''about, around, and underneath'' man, except man himself.
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
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The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
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