Quotes with sea-life

Quotes 4381 till 4387 of 4387.

• When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.

  Simone Weil
  French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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• When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

  Simone Weil
  French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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• When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.

  Elias Canetti
  Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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• Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

  Thomas Fuller
  English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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• Your life is what your thoughts make it.

  Marcus Aurelius
  Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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• A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• misfortunes
• fundamental
• definition
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