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QUOTES including the word: "discretion"

Diderot:
  • Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

    • Menander:
  • At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.

    • de Sade,Marquis:
  • So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.

    • Malatesta:
  • Governments oppress mankind in two ways, either directly, by brute force, that is physical violence, or indirectly, by depriving them of the means of subsistence and thus reducing them to helplessness at discretion.

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