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2913 quotesA man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
Secrets
Jean De La Bruyere
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Death and Dying
Jean De La Fontaine
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish
Soul
Jean De La Fontaine
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
Suffering
Jean De La Fontaine
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The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Slavery
Thomas La Mance
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Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
Luck
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Company
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
Gratitude
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
Confidence
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
Evil
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Peace
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Desire
Alphonse De Lamartine
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There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
Achievement
Alphonse De Lamartine
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Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
Attitude
Charles Lamb
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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
Competition
Charles Lamb
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Journalism and Journalists
Charles Lamb
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Value
Ann Landers
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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
Happiness
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
Justice
Walter Savage Landor
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Humankind
Walter Savage Landor
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He used statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts; for support rather than illumination.
Statistics
Andrew Lang
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
Potential
Lao-Tzu
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Desire
Lao-Tzu
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Nature is not human hearted.
Nature
Lao-Tzu
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The supply of government exceeds demand.
Government
Lewis H. Lapham
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun