Some random quotes

Jean La Bruyere:Discretion is the perfection of

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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
by Jean La Bruyere


Carolyn Heilbrun:The married are those who have

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The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
by Carolyn Heilbrun


Edna Ferber:A woman can look both moral and

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A woman can look both moral and exciting - if she also looks as if it were quite a struggle.
by Edna Ferber


Louis-Ferdinand Céline:The whole business of

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The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One’s stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death.
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline


Horace Mann:If evil is inevitable, how are the

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If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
by Horace Mann


Epicurus:The misfortune of the wise is better

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The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
by Epicurus


George Bernard Shaw:All my life affection has

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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
by George Bernard Shaw


Oscar Wilde:When one is in love, one always

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
by Oscar Wilde