Quotes 41 till 60 of 94.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
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When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
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Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
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You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
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Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that - the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.
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'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'.
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A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten".
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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.
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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
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A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
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For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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