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Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.
Honor
[ Nicholas Boileau ]
1042 votes.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
Self-knowledge
[ Catherine Drinker Bowen ]
1042 votes.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
Grave
[ Alexander The Great ]
1041 votes.

The tougher the job, the greater the reward.
Job
[ George Allen ]
1041 votes.

It shows exactly what you can do if you're a total psychotic.
Possibilities
[ Woody Allen ]
1041 votes.

The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge.
Curiosity
[ Apocrypha ]
1041 votes.

My favorite thing is to go where I have never gone.
Travel and Tourism
[ Diane Arbus ]
1041 votes.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Language
[ Gaston Bachelard ]
1041 votes.

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
Health
[ Richard Baker ]
1041 votes.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Abstinence
[ Natalie Clifford Barney ]
1041 votes.

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
Books - Reading
[ E.S. Barrett ]
1041 votes.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
Power
[ Roland Barthes ]
1041 votes.

As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.
Past
[ Gerald Barzan ]
1041 votes.

Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!
War
[ Alexander Blok ]
1041 votes.

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.
Fantasy
[ Stewart Brand ]
1041 votes.

Without humility there can be no humanity.
Humility
[ John Buchan ]
1041 votes.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Human Nature
[ Warren Buffett ]
1041 votes.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
Risk
[ James E. Burke ]
1041 votes.

A government of laws and not of men.
Uncategorised
[ John Adams ]
1040 votes.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
Circumstance
[ James Allen ]
1040 votes.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
Virtue
[ Aristotle ]
1040 votes.

Without friends no one would choose to live.
Friends and Friendship
[ Aristotle ]
1040 votes.

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
Things and Little Things
[ Daisy Ashford ]
1040 votes.

A word after a word after a word is power.
Power
[ Margaret Atwood ]
1040 votes.

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
Books - Reading
[ Stan Barstow ]
1040 votes.

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