Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
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Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
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Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
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Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
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In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
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The one knowing what is useful, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
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I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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The wisest of the wise may err.
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Death is softer by far than tyranny.
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Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
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The words of truth are simple.
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Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
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Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise. to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
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Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
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Know not to revere human things too much.
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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
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It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
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But time growing old teaches all things.
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Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
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Excessive fear is always powerless.
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From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
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When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
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Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders .
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I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.
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Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
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It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.
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Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.
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An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.
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Hunger is the handmaid of geniu s
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If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.
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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
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A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.
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I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.
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