Quotes 381 till 400 of 559.
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The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
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The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
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The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.
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The extreme limit of wisdom -that's what the public calls madness.
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The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
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The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
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The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
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The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
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The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
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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 person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
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The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.
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The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
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