Quotes 4741 till 4760 of 10185.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
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Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
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Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.
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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
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Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.
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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
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Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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