Theophrastus Quotes
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
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But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
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Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.
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When the stocks go up, the cocks go up!
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You can't be loved for long if you're not feared.
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I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.
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We are not apologetic of appointing a committee to look into the economic, social, education and cultural conditions of the single largest minority group.
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The best part about it was that we were rationed on water (during combat); we could only have so much.
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I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself.
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If a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.
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As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
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If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain.
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I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.
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For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.
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Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.
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And believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with the mathematical sciences, which proceed very cautiously and admit nothing as established until it has been rigorously demonstrated.
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Sin and death and suffering and war and poverty are not natural—they are the devastating results of our rebellion against God. We long for a return to Paradise—a perfect world, without the corruption of sin, where God walks with us and talks with us in the cool of the day.
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I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities; but I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown.
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One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
