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Funny Famous People Sayings - 81
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Henry Adams
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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Sallust
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Epicures
The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Egyptian Proverb
A man's ruin lies in his tongue.
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Anacharsis Cloots
What is man's chief enemy Each man is his own.
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Oscar Wilde
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
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Brigham Young
Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all This is a miracle and that no more.
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Logan Pearsall Smith
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
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Thomas a Kempis
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.
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Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262.
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
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Longinus Cassius
Whom did it benefit.
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Calvin Trillin
Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
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