"Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst."

Martial, Marcus Valerius on faults
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" man, proud man,Dressd in a little brief authority,"

Shakespeare, William on uncategorised
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"A man is not old as long as he is seeking something."

Rostand, Jean on age and aging
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"One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late."

Christie, Agatha on regret
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"When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before."

Thoreau, Henry David on progress
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"Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen."

Pitt, Brad on fame   

"Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on morality
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"A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance."

Disraeli, Benjamin on destiny
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"The poor man's budget is full of schemes."

Proverb on money
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"There is no indispensable man."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on job   

"Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

Vidal, Gore on voting
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"Fortune can take away riches, but not courage."

Seneca on courage
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"In studying the way, realizing it is hard; once you have realized it, preserving it is hard. When you can preserve it, putting it into practice is hard."

Saying, Zen on zen   

"Fair flowers are not left standing along the wayside long."

Proverb, German on flowers   

"Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden."

Phaedrus on appearance
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"A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped."

Mailer, Norman on democracy
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"There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with."

Santayana, George on sympathy   

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."

Bergman, Ingrid on happiness
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"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed."

Pritchard, Michael on fear
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"If you would know the value of money try to borrow some."

Franklin, Benjamin on borrowing
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"The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart."

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich on illness   

"Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability."

Seneca on security   

"An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run."

Lowell, James Russell on reason   

"The imposition of stigma is the commonest form of violence used in democratic societies."

Pinker, R. A. on violence   

"Attention to health is life greatest hindrance."

Plato on health   

"No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself."

Brecht, Bertolt on responsibility   

"The basis of effective government is public confidence."

Kennedy, John F. on government
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"The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it."

Baudrillard, Jean on change
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"Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid."

Twain, Mark on complaints and complaining
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"The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

Seneca on adversity
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"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern."

Acton, Lord on society
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"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."

Einstein, Albert on problems
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"Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on peace
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"Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them-and then you destroy yourself."

Nixon, Richard M. on hatred
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"He is the purest figure in history. [About George Washington]"

Gladstone, William E. on history and historians   

"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on character
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"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need."

Epicurus on friends and friendship
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"Better be quarrelling than lonesome."

Proverb, Irish on quarrels   

"If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic."

Spark, Muriel on catholicism
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"This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise."

Dante Alighieri on middle class
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