Quote #23687
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them...
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I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success – the earliest...
Quote #5411
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently...
Quote #10149
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed:...
Quote #4689
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow...
Quote #15027
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase...
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I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this...
Quote #22574
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler,...
Quote #19663
If your head is wax, don’t walk in the sun.