| Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. |
| Alphonse de Lamartine |
| This author aphorisms |
| By theme : Person |
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| To see things in the seed is genius. |
| Lao Tzu |
| This author aphorisms |
| By theme : Person Philosophy Wisdom |
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| Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. |
| Washington Irving |
| This author aphorisms |
| By theme : Person |
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| I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it. |
| Marcel Achard |
| This author aphorisms |
| By theme : Knowledge Person |
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| I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious. |
| Albert Einstein |
| This author aphorisms |
| By theme : Character Person |
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| Real nobility is based on scorn, courage and profound indifference. |
| Albert Camus |
| This author aphorisms |
| By theme : Behavior Character Person |
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| I am the state. Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns. |
| Louis XIV |
| This author aphorisms |
| By theme : Person Society |
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| Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences. |
| Honore de Balzac |
| This author aphorisms |
| By theme : Person Thought Wisdom |
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| Some virtues are seen only in affliction and others only in prosperity. |
| Joseph Addison |
| This author aphorisms |
| By theme : Life Person |
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| Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals, which direct them. |
| Napoleon |
| This author aphorisms |
| By theme : Character Person Society |
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| Ambition is not a vice of little people. |
| Michel de Montaigne |
| This author aphorisms |
| By theme : Character Person Vice |
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| The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. |
| Albert Camus |
| This author aphorisms |
| By theme : Person Philosophy |
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| Everyone is more or less mad on one point. |
| Rudyard Kipling |
| This author aphorisms |
| By theme : Person |
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| Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is. |
| Thomas Carlyle |
| This author aphorisms |
| By theme : Person Psychology |
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| A man dishonored is worse than dead. |
| Miguel de Cervantes |
| This author aphorisms |
| By theme : Behavior Person |
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| Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings. |
| Joseph Joubert |
| This author aphorisms |
| By theme : Feelings Person Psychology Reason |
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| No one ever became thoroughly bad all at once. |
| Decimus Junius Juvenal |
| This author aphorisms |
| By theme : Behavior Character Person Psychology |
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| To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous. |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| This author aphorisms |
| By theme : Person Thought |
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| An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. |
| Albert Camus |
| This author aphorisms |
| By theme : Person |
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| Hell is other people. |
| Jean Paul Sartre |
| This author aphorisms |
| By theme : Person Society |
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