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12663 quotesWriting is the continuation of politics by other means.
Writers and Writing
Philippe Sollers
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Riches are a stronghold in the imagination of a rich man.
Riches
Solomon
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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
Happiness
Solon
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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
Happiness
Solon
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Aristocracy
Solon
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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
Wealth
Solon
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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
Government
Solon
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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
Happiness
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
Communism and Socialism
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
Responsibility
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
Talent
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
Responsibility
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.
Ability
Thomas Somerville
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Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits.
Depression
Susan Sontag
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
Paranoia
Susan Sontag
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Taste has no system and no proofs.
Taste
Susan Sontag
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The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
Possibilities
Susan Sontag
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
Truth
Susan Sontag
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
Self-reliance
Sophocles
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
Failure
Sophocles
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Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Appreciation
Sophocles
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Ignorant menDont know what good they hold in their hands untilTheyve flung it away.
Uncategorised
Sophocles
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
Speakers and Speaking
Sophocles
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Look and you will find it -- what is unsought will go undetected.
Possibilities
Sophocles
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Judgment and Judges
Sophocles
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun