Quotes 11961 till 11980 of 12035.
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
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Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
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Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
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Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
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Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
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Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.
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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either
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The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
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The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have this capacity do not possess it. Warmth of heart, impulsiveness, pity are not enough.
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The excessive desire of pleasing goes along almost always with the apprehension of not being liked.
Source: Introductio ad Prudentiam II (1740) 178 -
The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.
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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
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