Quotes 5421 till 5440 of 10005.
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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
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Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
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Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Original:Le bon sense est la chose du monde la mieux partagée, car chacun pense en être bien pourvu.
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Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
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Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well-paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it.
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Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.
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