Quotes 401 till 420 of 10681.
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Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
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Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
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Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking.
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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
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Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.
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Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.
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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
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No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
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Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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