Plutarch Quotes
We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
Plutarch
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.
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Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
Francesco Totti
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Catherine Bell
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You can't show someone how to play the drums in six weeks, but you can point them in the right direction.
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As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!
Jane Austen
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The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature.
Charles Dickens
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It sounds strange to say, but someone's bad luck is sometimes the happiness of the other.
Michy Batshuayi
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We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
Plutarch
