Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be.
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Carroll Bryant
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
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Confucius
You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.
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Sarah Addison Allen
That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history.
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Anonymous
That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.
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Euripides
More Quotes By Thomas Mann
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes – who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or because of...
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
