Quotes 501 till 520 of 10331.
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
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Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
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Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that ''we choose death.''
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.
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We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
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We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.
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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
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We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
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We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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