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Public virtue is the vital spirit of republics, and history proves that when this has decayed and the love of money has usurped its place, although the forms of free government may remain for a season, the substance has departed forever. – James Buchanan	added by anonymous 9 years ago
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isnt a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. – Georges Clémenceau	added by anonymous 9 years ago
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. – Georges Clémenceau	added by anonymous 9 years ago
It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear. – Émile Durkheim	added by anonymous 10 years ago
In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs. – Daniel J. Boorstin	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human … the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength. – J. K. Rowling	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it. – William Cowper	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. – Wallace Stevens	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Oh what a tangled web we weave / When first we practice to deceive / But when by chance our deception proves true / The web we've wove is burst clear through – John Alejandro King, a.k.a. The Covert Comic, www.covertcomic.com	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity. – Dean Koontz	added by anonymous 10 years ago
All love, at first, like generous wine, Ferments and frets until ?tis fine; But when ?tis settled on the lee, And from th? impurer matter free, Becomes the richer still the older, And proves the pleasanter the colder. – Butler	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. – Mark Twain, What Is Man? (1906)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a German, and France will claim me a citizen of the world. However, if it proves wrong, France will say I'm a German, and Germany will say that I'm a jew. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 13 years ago
That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed. – Robert Heinlein, Time Enough For Love	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life. The hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house. – Josephine Hart, "Sin"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue, But, like the shadow, proves the substance true. – Alexander Pope, Essay on Man	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure. – J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows us that faith proves nothing. – Friedrich Nietzsche	added by anonymous 13 years ago
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans- unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing. – Karl Rove, March 19, 2001	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done." – George Carlin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive. – C. C. Colton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true. – D. March	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself. – H.L. Mencken	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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