Great Quotations

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca


All cruelty springs from weakness.

Gore Vidal


It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Nathaniel Hawthorne


In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

Unknown


Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.

Jerry Coleman


Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.

Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2


He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

Anatole France, Revolt of the Angels


To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price upon conjectures.

Wystan Hugh Auden


Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Bruce Lee


True refinement seeks simplicity.

James Branch Cabell


There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

Bertrand Russell


The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

William James


The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

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