"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them."
A Selection of Best and Memorable Quotes. Great Quotations from Famous People and Literature.
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“ Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.” By: Epicurus
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Nothin that lasts too long is agreeable, not even life. By : Vauvenargues
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“ A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.” By: Thoreau
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“ Death acquits us of all obligations.” By: Montaigne
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“ Mere parsimony is not economy... Expense and great expense may be an essential part of true economy.” By: Edmund Burke
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“The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats.” By: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Heroism)
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"I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest." By : John Keats
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Between the idea and the reality, Between the motion and the act, Falls the shadow. By : T.S. Eliot ( From : The Hollow Men )
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“ It is not in the power of the most exalted wit or enlarged understanding... to invent or frame one simple idea.” By: John Locke
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“ A creditor is worse than a master; for a master owns only your person, a creditor owns your dignity and can belabour that.” By: Victor H...
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