Things Quotes
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All things in moderation, including moderation.
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If you want different results, do not do the same things.
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There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe.
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Nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
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Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
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Even things that are true can be proved.
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.
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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
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Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.
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The funniest things are the forbidden.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.
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A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.
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To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.
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You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place.
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One always likes to do the things for which one has ability.
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Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.
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So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.
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He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.
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The important things are always simple.
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Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.