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"Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions." Friends 4.30 average rating Rate this Quote
"All a man can betray is his conscience." Men 5.00 average rating Rate this Quote
"As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook." Attitude, Friends, Men 4.00 average rating Rate this Quote
"How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat?" Art, Fear 4.50 average rating Rate this Quote
"I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know." Knowledge, Men, Wisdom 4.66 average rating Rate this Quote
"Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow." Happiness, Joy, Sorrow 3.00 average rating Rate this Quote
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." Ability, Evil, Faith 4.28 average rating Rate this Quote
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." Ability, Evil, Faith 5.00 average rating Rate this Quote
"The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage." Age, Courage, Desires 4.00 average rating Rate this Quote
"The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future." Ability, History, Men 4.85 average rating Rate this Quote
"The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds." Ability Rate this Quote
"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life." Age, Art, Honesty 5.00 average rating Rate this Quote
"Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality." Excellence, Knowledge, Wisdom 4.00 average rating Rate this Quote
"You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends." Friends, Men 4.30 average rating Rate this Quote


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