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The indolence I love is not that of a lazy fellow who sits with his arms across in total inaction, and thinks no more than he acts,...

...but that of a child which is incessantly in motion doing nothing, and that of a dotard who wanders from his subject.


Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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— Yet you believ...
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A whole love than div...
ARTHUR DILLON Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals ...
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Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
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Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direc...
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THEODOTUS (outraged).
How!
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H...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
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But his eyes weren't o...
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He takes nothin...
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like kindred; and fo...
MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD WHAT IS TRUTH?

Truth is not a thing
Or a concept.
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H...
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I am...
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EURIPIDES Die slowly

He who becomes the slave of habit,
who follows the same routes every day,...
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They gave the deep end of their heart--a hue of crimson red,
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He keeps me in his pocket
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At last he beat his music out.
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JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
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I ai...
STEPHEN KING But you love to play the good man,
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SHANNON L. ALDER And who are you, the proud Lord said
that I must bow so low?
Only a cat of a different co...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN This is what I am, I'll say, to leave this written
excuse. This is my life.
Now it is clea...
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That child who from Diana’s thought is born
A huntress swift, who do...
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JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not ex...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; fr...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The strongest is never strong enough always to be master, unless he transforms strength into right, ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the sec...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely know...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Cities are the abyss of the human species
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naive eno...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Truth is no road to fortune
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who h...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather ser...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Our greatest evil flows from ourselves
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during electi...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specif...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU God made me and broke the mold.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the ric...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be h...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I l...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be gi...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve en...
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