"Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known."

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"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

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"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

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"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."

Alice Walker, American Author

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"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing."

"Thou hast seen nothing yet."

"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."

"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."

"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."

"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."

"There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger."

"Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything."

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"What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?"

"Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed."

"Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin."

"By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him."

"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."

"The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death."

"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"

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