"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."

Bacon, Francis on solitude
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"Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone."

Tillich, Paul on loneliness
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"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."

Cowley, Abraham on solitude
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"You may be flexible on strategy, but must remain consistent on principle!"

Movie, Brubaker on principles   

"Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts"

Proverb, Tibetan on goodness
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"Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes."

Sheddan, Scott on silence   

"When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable."

Couples, Fred on preparation
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"The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ambition
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"Curiosity is the lust of the mind."

Hobbes, Thomas on curiosity
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"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience."

Caesar, Julius on pain
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"The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less defense and the less defense the less the gain."

Wyatt, Sir T. on pain   

"The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master."

Gibran, Kahlil on comfort
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"The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves."

Addison, Joseph on appetite   

"But I say to you, that every one who looks on a woman to lust for her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. [Matthew 5:28]"

Bible on lust
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"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on wisdom   

"The surest cure for vanity is loneliness."

Wolfe, Thomas on loneliness
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"Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt."

Franklin, Benjamin on pride
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"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."

Johnson, Samuel on libraries
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"Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on power   

"For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own."

Thompson, Francis on pain   

"The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body."

Syrus, Publilius on pain
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"One pain is lessened by another's anguish."

Shakespeare, William on pain
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"After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs."

Dickinson, Emily on pain
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"There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear."

Eliot, George on pain
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"Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself."

Ellis, Havelock on pain
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"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."

Gibran, Kahlil on pain
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"Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again."

Harte, Bret on pain
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"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."

Jung, Carl on pain
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"Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life."

Lamb, Charles on pain
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"The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain."

Marx, Karl on pain
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"Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing."

Robbins, Anthony on pain
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"Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon."

Sim, Dave on beginning