Sake Quotes
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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
Moliere
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What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?
Martin Luther
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I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
Thomas More
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I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off;
you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy.
…People fancy they are enjoying themselves,
but they are really tearing out their wings
for the sake of an illusion.
Rumi
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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who
are virtuous for virtue's sake.
Sallust
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Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.
Chris Hogan
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There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.
Ricky Williams
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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake; and if at any time a man make a thing for the sake of something else, it is referred to his own good, whether his use, his pleasure, or his virtue.
Thomas Aquinas
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Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?
William Shatner
