Quotes 261 till 280 of 393.
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Symmetry is for God, not for us.
Source: Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 257 -
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
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That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.
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The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
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The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
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The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
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The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
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The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.
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The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it.
Source: Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 119
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