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#1

“There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.”
― St. Augustine

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#2

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: brevity, wit

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#3

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato

tags: philosophy

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#4

“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

tags: christ, christianity, desire, god, heart, jesus, longing, peace, religion, rest, restlessness

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#5

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
― Aristotle

tags: patience

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#6

“To love someone means to see them as God intended them.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#7

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
― Aristotle

tags: ethics, philosphy, self-discovery

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#8

“Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.”
― Saint Augustine

tags: morality, right-and-wrong

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#9

“Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.”
― Edmund Burke

tags: admiration, happiness, woman

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#10

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#11

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: change, tolstoy

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#12

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato

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#13

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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#14

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: hell, love, suffering

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#15

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato

tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance

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#16

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
― Plato

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#17

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
― Blaise Pascal

tags: heart, love, quip, reason

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#18

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle

tags: education, ethics

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#19

“Hope is a waking dream.”
― Aristotle

tags: dreams, hope

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#20

“The course of true love never did run smooth; But, either it was different in blood,
O cross! too high to be enthrall’d to low.
Or else misgraffed in respect of years,
O spite! too old to be engag’d to young.
Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,
O hell! to choose love by another’s eye.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

tags: love, true-love

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#21

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness

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#22

“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: chess, daring, ideas

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#23

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

tags: ironic, sad

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#24

“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: attention, books, humor, mind, wit

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#25

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: education, ignorance, indoctrination

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#26

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#27

“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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#28

“The path to paradise begins in hell.”
― Dante Alighieri

tags: heaven, hell, paradise

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#29

“Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

tags: inspirational, life

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#30

“Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: shakespeare

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