Escritas - Poems List

Cicero

For no phase of life,

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

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Anonymous

Temper gets you into trouble.

Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.

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Karam Al-Bayati

Youth are the power that

Youth are the power that dictators hate

31

Hazlitt

True modesty and true pride

True modesty and true pride are much the same thing. Both consist in setting a just value on ourselves?neither more nor less.

16

Samuel Beckett

Fail, fail again, fail better.

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Abraham Lincoln

I am for those means

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

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Hazlitt

Man is an intellectual animal,

Man is an intellectual animal, therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe; so that he is torn in pieces between the two without the possibility of its ever being otherwise. A mere physical being or a pure spirit can alone be satisfied with itself.

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Fode Toure

Programming is modelisation of real

Programming is modelisation of real life.

20

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

It is only with the

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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Douglas MacArthur

A better world shall emerge

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

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Hazlitt

We are never so much

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

We were once fish! We

We were once fish! We spent millions of years under the water in silence! That's why now we love talking continuously!

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Oscar Wilde

The stage is not merely

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

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Galileo Galilei

All truths are easy to

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

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Hazlitt

Let a man?s talents or

Let a man?s talents or virtues be what they may, we feel satisfaction in his society only as he is satisfied in himself. We cannot enjoy the good qualities of a friend if he seems to be none the better for them.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Farewell is a beautiful and

Farewell is a beautiful and a soft word and yet it is a horrible and a heavy thing too!

66

Montesquieu

There is no crueler tyranny

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

185

Dolly Parton

Find out who you are

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

35

Herodotus

Those who are guided by

Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Farewell is a beautiful and

Farewell is a beautiful and a soft word and yet it is a horrible and a heavy thing!

48

Elayne Boosler

When women are depressed they

When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.

18

Chief Joseph

Hear me, my chiefs! I

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

50

Zartarius McDade

Humans'race is just simply full

Humans'race is just simply full of colors,but human itself is truly complicated.

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Herodotus

Dreams in general take their

Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.

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