Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. Great short quote and quotation by: Voltaire , French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778)
What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that […]
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Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content. Great short quote and quotation by: Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince , Italian dramatist, historian, & philosopher (1469 – 1527)
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. Great short quote and quotation by: Edmund Burke , Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 – 1797)
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Frederick Douglass, Speech, April 1886
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. Great short quote and quotation by: Frederick Douglass, Speech, April 1886 , US abolitionist (1817 […]
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Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. Great short quote and quotation by: Daphne du Maurier , British novelist (1907 – 1989)