"Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune."

Aurelius, Marcus on adversity
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"A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him."

Orwell, George on tragedies
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"It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes."

Parker, Dorothy on tragedies   

"Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard."

Sackville, Margaret on tragedies   

"There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it."

Shaw, George Bernard on tragedies
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"Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on tragedies
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"When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness."

Vizinczey, Stephen on tragedies
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"This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."

Walpole, Horace on tragedies   

"In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst."

Wilde, Oscar on tragedies   

"There are no tragedies, just facts not recognized in time."

Montapert, William D. on tragedies   

"Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth."

Lawrence, D. H. on tragedies   

"I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy."

Joel, Billy on tragedies   

"Without alienation, there can be no politics."

Miller, Arthur on alienation
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"He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid."

Miller, Arthur on failure   

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

Miller, Arthur on regret
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"The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism."

Miller, Arthur on tragedies   

"Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy."

Barzun, Jacques on tragedies
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"I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them."

Binoche, Juliette on tragedies   

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."

Carnegie, Dale on tragedies
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"The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives -- the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself."

Cousins, Norman on tragedies
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"It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style."

Wilde, Oscar on tragedies   

"Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth."

Middleton, Owen C. on truth   

"An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half."

Kraus, Karl on aphorisms and epigrams   

"Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good."

Lao-Tzu on words
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"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth."

Adler, Alfred on truth   

"Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them."

Unknown, Source on lies and lying   

"Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth -- well, it's like brown -- it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic."

Murdoch, Iris on moralists
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"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."

Bohr, Niels on truth
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"The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period."

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl) on truth
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"The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time."

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II) on truth   

"It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. For it is not by the possession, but the search after truth that he enlarges his power, wherein alone consists his ever-increasing perfection."

Lessing, Gotthold on effort   

"Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative."

Gibbon, Edward on autobiography   

"Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth."

Whately, Richard on truth
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"Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester."

Unknown, Source on truth   

"Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth."

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander on truth
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"Truth does not contradict truth."

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi on truth
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"The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth."

Hesse, Hermann on truth
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"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."

Huxley, Aldous on truth
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"Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance."

Stone, W. Clement on truth
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"An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself."

Antrim, Minna on aphorisms and epigrams
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