Plato Quotes
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
Quotes to Explore
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
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With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
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When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
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Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
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The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
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I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.
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I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!
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Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.
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Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.
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Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women.
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I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
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Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.
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When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
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With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.
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Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.
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The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.
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Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
