Marcus Aurelius Quotes
Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.
Marcus Aurelius
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I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.
Rabindranath Maharaj
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
Walter Kaufmann
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In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
Cal Thomas
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
E. O. Wilson
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
Irwin Shaw
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Life on a factory farm is well-nigh unbearable for the animals or birds, and it is often foul for the women and men who process the meat that results - especially in factories for chicken parts. But do not sentimentalize. Do not imagine barnyard life is a bowl of cherries.
Ian Hacking
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore.
Alexander Pope
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The law of nature is that Truth alone triumphs-Satyameva Jayate. Our judiciary having spoken, I felt it important to share my inner thoughts and feelings with the nation at large.
Narendra Modi
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Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.
Anna Chlumsky
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Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated – unfairly so, in my opinion.
Conrad Black
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O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's search To vaster issues.
George Eliot
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Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.
Marcus Aurelius