Quotes 61 till 80 of 186.
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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
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Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.
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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
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Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness.
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Fame is almost a poison. I couldn't care less, in fact I lived better when I was a nobody.
Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 [1] -
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
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Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
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Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.
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