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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
Fran Lebowitz
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Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things about smokers that used to be said about homosexuals - they pollute the environment you don't want them around your children.
Fran Lebowitz
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Say it over and over until you believe it, and only then shall you become it.
Hal Elrod
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I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.
Helen Keller
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I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger for drink, thirst.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.
Fran Lebowitz
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These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in purgatory - that is, a place where a fellow can get a chance to make a motion for a new trial.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Everything starts with a story.
Joseph Campbell
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Beneath every excuse lies a fear. Practice being fearless.
Robin Sharma
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We are the sons of Light and children of God. Glory unto the Lord, we will succeed.
Swami Vivekananda
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'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.
Athenaeus
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Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.
Demosthenes
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Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.
Swami Vivekananda
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You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something behind the work. Even good deeds can find a man in great bondage. Therefore be not bound by good deeds or by desires for name and fame.
Swami Vivekananda
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Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.
Swami Vivekananda
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When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury.
Fran Lebowitz
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A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form.
Swami Vivekananda
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
Frederick Douglass
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Thirst after body is the great bane of human life.
Swami Vivekananda
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I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.
Christopher Lee
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