Quotes 61 till 80 of 101.
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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.
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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
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The problem after a war is the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
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The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
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