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 Petronius Arbiter
Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb?
It's the old headpiece that makes a man, the rest is all rubbish.
After all, I was once like you are, but being the right sort I got where I am.
What power has law where only money rules?
So the starry sky turns round like a millstone, always bringing some trouble, and men being born or dying.
