Quotes in this theme
Humanity and Solidarity
William Shakespeare
Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man’s life is cheap as beast’s.
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William Shakespeare
And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else.
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Denis Diderot
To say that man is made up of strength and weakness, of insight and blindness, of pettiness and grandeur, is not to draw up an indictment against him: it is to define him.
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Theodore Roosevelt
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
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François Mauriac
Each of us is like a desert, and a literary work is like a cry from the desert, or like a pigeon let loose with a message in its claws, or like a bottle thrown into the sea. The point is: to be heard—even if by one single person.
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Saul Bellow
Every writer’s assumption is that he is as other human beings are, and that they are more or less as he is. There’s a principle of psychic unity. [Writing] was not meant to be an occult operation; it was not meant to be an esoteric secret.
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Protágoras
No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds, they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.
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Platão
A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
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Platão
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
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