"The history of mankind is his character."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on history and historians
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"When desire dies, fear is born."

Gracian, Baltasar on desire   

"The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood."

Davis, Bette on weakness
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"The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong."

Dietrich, Marlene on weakness
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"Our strength grows out of our weakness."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on weakness
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"The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable."

Fuller, Thomas on weakness   

"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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"All cruelty springs from weakness."

Seneca on weakness
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"What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the world series."

Barry, Dave on women
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"The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings -- woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star."

Baudelaire, Charles on women   

"We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities -- courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning -- whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage."

Baudrillard, Jean on women   

"I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth."

Cartland, Barbara on women
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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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"Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so."

Dworkin, Andrea on women
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"The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character."

Goldman, Emma on women
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"A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless -- for it is a bankruptcy of the heart."

Irving, Washington on women
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"Woman is the Nigger of the World."

Lennon, John on women   

"You don't know a woman until you have received a letter from her."

Leverson, Ada on women
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"Women are considered deep -- why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on women
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"For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience."

Russell, Bertrand on women   

"If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity."

Sand, George on women
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"The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies."

Spacks, Patricia Meyer on women   

"Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species -- it is the tigress and lioness in you -- which tends to defend when attacked."

Thatcher, Margaret 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 truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."

Woolf, Virginia on women
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"Self-defense is Nature's eldest law."

Dryden, John on defense
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"The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it."

Clark, Frank A. on ignorance   

"It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge."

Glasgow, Arnold H. on ignorance
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"A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it."

Herodotus on slander
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"It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you."

Twain, Mark on slander
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"Stupidity is without anxiety."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on stupidity
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"An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head."

Hoffer, Eric on stupidity
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"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."

Hubbard, Elbert on stupidity
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"Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on stupidity   

"Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin."

Wilde, Oscar on vulgarity   

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"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."

Allen, James on honor
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"For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death."

Bhagavad Gita on honor
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"All honor's wounds are self-inflicted."

Carnegie, Andrew on honor
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"Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food."

Colton, Charles Caleb on honor