There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
It is natural to love oneself, and only the egoism must be condemned. That is not only to love yourself, but to love him more than is needed.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
The more one judges, the less one loves.
“Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.”
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
If the dead could speak there would be no more war.
The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say of it, it draws your mind to it, by a mental law of gravitation.
Balkan brass is punk – more madness than music. We all need some madness.
The whole soul is in the whole body, in the bones and in the veins and in the heart; it is no more present in one part than in another, and it is no less present in one part than in the whole, nor in the whole less than in one part.
It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
Later, in a more perfect society, someone else made just like me is certain to appear and act freely.
Destiny guides our fortunes more favorably than we could have expected.
The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
Books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.
I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
I am one of those who think, like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
We have two ears and one tongue so that we should listen more and talk less.
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.
If your brother wrongs you, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is your brother.
It takes more than just a good looking body. You should have the heart and soul to go with it.
Give yourself; you will receive more than you give.
The only thing better than singing is more singing.
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.
“Drifting, drifting,/ what am I more than/ a single gull/ between sky and earth?
It is much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.
...nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book... ...
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
“We owe more to our illusions than to our knowledge”
The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.
I drink to make other people more interesting.
What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.
To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.
It is more important to know what person has the disease than what disease the person has.
It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease that person has.
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.
To live is nothing more than to come here to die, to be what we were before being born, but with apprenticeship, experience, knowledge of cause, and perhaps with will.
Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
Friendship is more important than truth.
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.
I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
Bless us, oh Lord, with good fortune For ever and evermore.
Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road-- Only wakes upon the sea.
Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb
It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
Human dignity is more precious than prestige.
The song is everything. The rhythmic wing has eternal blood, And I know that one day I shall be dumb: — Nothing more.
To say more than what's necessary I don't think is appropriate for a man.
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
“The more we love someone, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that true love shows itself.
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”
Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”
The less men think, the more they talk.
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide
You came back after a long time I now love longing for you more than I love you
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.
“If you have no more tears left to weep, then don’t weep. Laugh.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
Every time I hear a recording I've made, I hear all kinds of things I could improve or things I should have done. There's always so much more to be done in music. It's so vast.
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Either be silent or say things of more value than silence. Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Life is defined by the Law of Force and Necessity (the more you beat necessity the stronger you get)
My poems tend to be more a part of Third World studies than literature studies.
I came to consider the instinct as nothing more than the "motor aspect of pleasure.
“I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable…. But I don’t seem to have a single real friend!”
To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
I do not think you learn wisdom just like that, by reading Thucydides and becoming reasonable, but I do believe that if young people came into contact with that period of reflection which is different from our time, but which nevertheless has elements in common, we would think better, in a more measured, more reasonable and more tolerant fashion.
I am still sensitive to beauty. I would say, almost more so! The objects are somewhat distorted, blurry like impressionist paintings that strike you, sometimes, and draw you in. But external beauty remains transitory, whereas the beauty of a text, of a sentence, is an idea that I will keep within me an entire day.
The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.
The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.
“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.
Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.”
Creating is always so much more stimulating than destroying.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer.
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory
The Beardmore Glacier is not difficult in fine weather, but on our return we did not get a single completely fine day; this with a sick companion enormously increased our anxieties.
A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
I am more original than no one
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
The rich people not only had all the money, they had all the chance to get more; they had all the know-ledge and the power, and so the poor man was down, and he had to stay down.
Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter”
“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.
I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep.
Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.
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Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtuous, as men become more so.
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.