Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
I am a citizen of the world.
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Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
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The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, the dream of a waking man.
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Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, that when they speak truth they are not believed.
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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination...
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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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The lover says how beautiful you are, now that you love me.
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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither.
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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge . . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation.
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Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.
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Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.
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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact.
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I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
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What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.
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To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything...
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Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
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I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, if I can ease one pain, then my life will not have been in vain.
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Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
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Faith--is the Peerless Bridge Supporting what we see Unto the Scene that We do not.
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The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. ...
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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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Now I shall return to my village and there will remain at the disposition of the nation.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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The national task that had been incumbent upon me for 18 years is hereby confirmed.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown.
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It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe Europe will be united by the Chinese.
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The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.
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As A general rule, people marry most happily with their own kind.
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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