"Conceit causes more conversation than wit."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"In a just cause the weak will beat the strong."

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"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Don't speak of action [effect]. Don't serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement."

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"One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded."

"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."

"The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all."

"For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going."

"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."

"In a just cause the weak will beat the strong."

"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."

"Don't speak of action [effect]. Don't serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause."

"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."

"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement."

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"We are oftener treacherous through weakness than through calculation."

"We forgive so long as we love."

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"There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess."

"Interest speaks all sorts of tongues and plays all sorts of parts even that of disinterestedness."

"The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others."

"One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines."

"There are few chaste women who are not tired of their trade."

"The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others."