“A gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion.”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 18
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“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
“Mere existence had always been too little for him; he had always wanted more.”
“The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing.”
“To make truth sound probable you must always mix in some falsehood with it.”
“Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that.”
“One must really be a great man to be able to make a stand even against common sense.”
“The thirst for culture is an aristocratic thirst. Boredom is an aristocratic sensation.”
“You see, a fact is merely the absence of contradiction, but truth is the presence of coherence.”
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
“I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history.”
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.”
“The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.”
“We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.”
“How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
“We must all learn to live together as brothers, or we will all perish together as fools.”
“Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth.”
“We have been in the mountain of moral and ethical relativism long enough.”