"This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high."

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"This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high."

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"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"A lie never lives to be old."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Lie, Old

"When you crop the photo, you tell a lie."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Lie, Lies, Opinion

"Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

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"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

Lie, Injury, Lying

"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

Lie, Man, Memory

"To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers."

Henrietta Szold, American Activist

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"I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, tomorrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today."

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"A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain."

Love

"His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right."

Faith

"Life is an incurable disease."

Life

"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."

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"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."

"A lie never lives to be old."

"When you crop the photo, you tell a lie."

"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

"Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him."

"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."

"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

"To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers."

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"I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, tomorrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today."

"A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain."

"His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right."

"Life is an incurable disease."

"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."

"Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure."

"Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure."

"God the first garden made, and the first city Cain."

"Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make."

"Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last."