"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."

Reagan, Ronald on politics
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"We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured."

Pascal, Blaise on infallibility   

"It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants."

Pascal, Blaise on freedom
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"Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world."

Pascal, Blaise on life
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"To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher."

Pascal, Blaise on philosophers and philosophy
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"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."

Bierce, Ambrose on philosophers and philosophy
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"One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then."

Burroughs, John on philosophers and philosophy   

"Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it."

Camus, Albert on philosophers and philosophy
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"There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it."

Cicero, Marcus T. on philosophers and philosophy   

"Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits."

James, William on philosophers and philosophy
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"If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on philosophers and philosophy
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Burke, Edmund on evil
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"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."

Burke, Edmund on doubt
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"Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools."

Proverb on philosophers and philosophy
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"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."

Miller, Henry on philosophers and philosophy
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"Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself."

Mencken, H. L. on philosophers and philosophy
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"Who wills the end, wills the means."

Proverb on power   

"Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on valor
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"Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy."

Churchill, Jennie Jerome on life
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"You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady."

Churchill, Jennie Jerome on women
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"In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be."

Smith, Huston on reality   

"Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh."

Ginsberg, Allen on art   

"Death twitches my ear. Live, he says, I am coming."

Virgil on death
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"The inventor of the Xerox machine will, I am sure, find a special place reserved for him on one of the inner circles of Dante's Inferno."

Goodison, Nicholas on bureaucracy   

"Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. "

Kennedy, John F. on uncategorised
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"I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth."

Yeats, William Butler on journalism and journalists   

"The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land."

Houston, Libby on nuclear age   

"The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise."

Dante Alighieri on life
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"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal."

Dante Alighieri on beauty
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"There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated."

Dickens, Charles on emotions
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"Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way."

Goldberg, Isaac on diplomacy   

"I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare."

Lewis, C. S. on giving
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"The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into the atom bomb; God's thunderbolt became blunted, so man's thunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction."

O'Casey, Sean on nuclear age   

"Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?"

Virgil on defeat   

"I have lived, and I have run the course which fortune allotted me; and now my shade shall descend illustrious to the grave."

Virgil on death
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"Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low."

Virgil on empire   

"Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind."

Virgil on fame   

"Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused."

Virgil on gold   

"They can because they think they can."

Virgil on belief
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"They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence"

Virgil on character