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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Mahatma Gandhi /

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

René Descartes /

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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

René Descartes /

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

Desiderius Erasmus /

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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Alfred de Musset /

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Desiderius Erasmus /

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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Honore de Balzac /

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

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I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Arthur Schopenhauer /

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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art.

Charles Baudelaire /

art

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

François de La Rochefoucauld /

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Albert Einstein /

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

George Bernard Shaw /

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

François de La Rochefoucauld /

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Niccolo Machiavelli /

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Benjamin Franklin /

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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero /

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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