"Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on weakness
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"A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them."

Lush, Jean on weakness
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"She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness."

Wilde, Oscar on weakness
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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

Adams, Henry Brooks on teacher
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"I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway."

Samuelson, Joan Benoit on victory   

"We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace."

Hoffman, Paul on victory
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"I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me."

Rooney, Mickey on women
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"Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"To be born woman is to know -- although they do not speak of it at school -- women must labor to be beautiful."

Yeats, William Butler on women
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"I came, I saw, I conquered."

Caesar, Julius on victory
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"The will to conquer is the first condition of victory."

Foch, Ferdinand on victory
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"Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on victory
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"Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end."

Herrick, Robert on victory   

"Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one."

Ball, Ivern on advice
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"I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome."

Caesar, Julius on attitude
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"There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy."

Moore, Frankfort on enemies
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"He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on enemies
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"When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you."

Proverb, African on enemies
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"Speak well of your enemies... you made them."

Unknown, Source on enemies
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"In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

Voltaire on enemies
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"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

Wilde, Oscar on enemies
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"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on advice
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"For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend."

Lincoln, Abraham on enemies
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"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

Kennedy, John F. on enemies
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"I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember."

Ford, Gerald R. on enemies   

"I love the name of honor, more than I fear death."

Caesar, Julius on honor
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"Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on greatness
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"No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men."

Carlyle, Thomas on greatness   

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"I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great."

Charles, Ray on greatness
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"Big results require big ambitions."

Champy, James on ambition
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"I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go."

Cook, James R. on ambition   

"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since."

Dali, Salvador on ambition
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"There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck."

Euripides on enemies
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"There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People."

Wilde, Oscar on despotism
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"Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography."

Wilde, Oscar on disciples
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"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability."

Wilde, Oscar on humankind
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"How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say."

Wilde, Oscar on hypocrisy
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"And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, none knew so well as I: for he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die."

Wilde, Oscar on hypocrisy
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