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What is food to one is to another bitter poison.


Lucretius

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What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.
LUCRETIUS What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
LUCRETIUS Ques eso? Queso?
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VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
BIJOU HUNTER What is another person's pleasure is another's poison.
CASSANDRA CLARE How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach.
GEORGE ADE One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach
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CHLOE THURLOW Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori...
TOMOKO HAYAKAWA How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
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PAUL GOODMAN One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.
GEORGE ADE To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
ZSA ZSA GABOR To err is human, but it feels divine.
MAE WEST The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible s...
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SAM HARRIS Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The patrists poison themselves. The matrists tend to decay, which is merely another kind of poison.
THEODORE STURGEON There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
CASSANDRA CLARE Food for the ego is poison for the soul.
DONNA GODDARD There is a snake in thy smile, my dear, And bitter poison within thy tear.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
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ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
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ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
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ANDREW TO Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL [If a man] postpone[s] any open acknowledgement... that his own faith is in direct opposition to the...
C.S. LEWIS Life is about happiness—not about success.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI Hospital food is one thing, but home cooking is another.
FRANKIE GRAY What is sin?
It is the glory of God not honored.
The holiness of God not reverenced.
...
JOHN PIPER Love is insanity, apparently.
COREY ANN HAYDU Love, real love, the kind that you fall in, isn’t like Corinthians. The “suffereth long” and �...
JULIE ANNE LONG Love without reason is fleeting; love without emotion, dry.
J.R. MORALES Szerzetesek, vannak tanulatlan, közönséges emberek, akik nem gondolnak a nemes dolgokkal, nem hal...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA És Brahmá, a Teremtő, felső ruháját fél vállán átvetve, összetett kézzel meghajolt a Mag...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Revenge is Always Sweet, it's the Aftertaste that's Bitter.
JOSHUA CALEB I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON Looper is another great film.
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.
SUN YAT-SEN To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
E. W. HOWE Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in uncle...
DAN GROAT What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad c...
DONNA TARTT There is a law of the natural worlds (the spiritual and the physical) and this is something I have u...
C. JOYBELL C. There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
ANDRE MAUROIS It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
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STEVEN STRAIT Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
SIR WILFRED T. GRENFELL Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
WILFRED T. GRENFELL We all must learn that in some cases there is something much worse than saying the wrong thing; that...
RICHARD BELLZON I dialed the number slowly, wanting to get it right. Two rings, and he picked up.
"Yes," I sai...
SARAH DESSEN Real love is feeling so loved and so secure that even your name feels safe in his mouth.
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DEYTH BANGER I love you; I love you and I don’t care that you’re my sister; don’t be with him, don’t want...
CASSANDRA CLARE The Queen gave him a look: special and secretive and shared between the two of them.You warned he...
CASSANDRA CLARE Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain.
JOHN LOCKE How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!
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