"There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude. If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped."

Kottler, Jeffrey on solitude
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"Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture. Out of the cave, the tribal teepee, the pueblo, the community fortress, man emerged to build himself a house of his own with a shelter in it for himself and his diversions. Every age has seen it so. The poor might have to huddle together in cities for need's sake, and the frontiersman cling to his neighbors for the sake of protection. But in each civilization, as it advanced, those who could afford it chose the luxury of a withdrawing-place."

Mcginley, Phyllis on privacy   

"Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on style   

"Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so."

Shaw, George Bernard on truth   

"When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder."

Lao-Tzu on morality
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"Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is."

Williams, Tennessee on success   

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."

Kingsley, Charles on happiness   

"Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity."

Arendt, Hannah on necessity   

"It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury."

Moore, Thomas on cries and crying   

"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."

Beckett, Samuel on cries and crying   

"I cry every chance I get."

Gere, Richard on cries and crying   

"Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose."

Heine, Heinrich on cries and crying   

"Have a good cry, wash out your heart. If you keep it inside it'll tear you apart. Sometimes you lose, but you're gonna win if you just hang in."

Hook, Dr. on cries and crying
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"What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity."

Crosland, Anthony on generations
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"Hate is such a luxurious emotion, it can only be spent on one we love."

Udkoff, Bob on hatred
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"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding."

Mcluhan, Marshall on opinions   

"Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on sincerity   

"Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad."

Johnson, Samuel on solitude
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"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."

Wilde, Oscar on blame
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"A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it."

Wilde, Oscar on time   

"Crises bring out the best in the best of us, and the worst in the worst of us."

Unknown, Source on cries and crying   

"There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts."

Roux, Joseph on cries and crying
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"I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem."

Halleck, Fitz-Greene on credulity   

"It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others."

Syrus, Publilius on caution   

"Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes."

Thoreau, Henry David on caution   

"Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage"

Unknown, Source on caution
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"A mousetrap always provides free cheese."

Unknown, Source on caution   

"Vigilance is the virtue of vice."

Weber, C. J. on caution   

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, Bokonon tells us. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on caution   

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."

Russell, Bertrand on caution   

"Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water."

Proverb, Swedish on caution   

"Beware of silent dogs and still waters."

Proverb, Portuguese on caution
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"Beware of one who has nothing to lose."

Proverb, Italian on caution
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"Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best."

Proverb, Chinese on caution
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"Don't dance on a volcano."

Proverb, French on caution   

"Always count the cost."

Proverb, American on caution   

"When a fox preaches, take care of your geese."

Proverb on caution
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"Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clich?s."

Ionesco, Eugene on banality   

"Banality is a terribly likely consequence of the underused of a good mind. That is why in particular it is a female affliction."

Propper-Seton, Cynthia on banality   

"When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet."

Lec, Stanislaw J. on celebration