Plato Quotes, Desire Quotes, Doe Quotes

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

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The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.

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Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]

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I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

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The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.

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Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray.

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If you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them.

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The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.

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Does the business have favourable long term prospects?

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Don't ask permission. If it does not work, you can apologize later.

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Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]

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If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.

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Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.

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One attacks those who possess things that one does not possess. The attack is all the more savage because the one who attacks is destitute and the one who is attacked is well provided. The one who attacks always considers himself to be in the position of legitimate offense.

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God Almighty does not throw dice.

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When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

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When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.

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A good speaker does not stutter.

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Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Doe Quotes , Isolated Quotes