"A human being is only breath and shadow."

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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Being, Benefits, Duty, World

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Being, Pleasure

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Being, Giving, Man, World

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Being, Dignity, May, Water

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Being, Nothing

"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Being, Action, Inspirational, Truth, Life

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Being, Man, Woman

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Being, Earth, Profession

"I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future."

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"A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist."

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"Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?"

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"What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?"

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"Not even Ares battles against necessity."

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"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away."

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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

"I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them."

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"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future."

"A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist."

"Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?"

"To live without evil belongs only to the gods."

"Silence is an ornament for women."

"Wisdom outweighs any wealth."

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

"What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?"

"Not even Ares battles against necessity."

"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away."