"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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"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms."

Voltaire, French Writer

Lie, Feet

"Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the."

Mary McCarthy, American Author

Lie, Word

"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Lie, Lies, Lying

"A lie never lives to be old."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Lie, Old

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

Lie, Sin, Tools

"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms."

Joni Mitchell, Canadian Musician

Lie, Ability, Nation, Self

"Sanity is a cozy lie."

Susan Sontag, American Author

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"A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period."

John Lothrop Motley, American Historian

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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."

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

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"The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy."

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

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"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms."

"Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the."

"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."

"A lie never lives to be old."

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

"Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

"This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms."

"Sanity is a cozy lie."

"A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period."

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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."

"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."

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

"The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy."

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

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

"Life is an incurable disease."

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

"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."