"A witty saying proves nothing."

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"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on."

Marilyn Monroe, American Actress

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"Nothing endures but personal qualities."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block."

Annie Dillard, American Author

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"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence."

Charles Caleb Colton, English Writer

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"Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing."

Charles Caleb Colton, English Writer

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"We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens."

James Hillman, American Psychologist

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"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life."

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"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

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"It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love."

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"He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first."

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"The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing."

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"Fear could never make a virtue."

Ethics

"Work banishes those three great evils boredom vice and poverty."

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"Perhaps, if I use my reason in good faith, I may suceed in discovering some ray of probability to lighten me in the dark night of nature. And if this faint dawn which I seek does not come to me, I shall be consoled to think that my ignorance is invincible; that knowledge which is forbidden me is assuredly useless to me; and that the great Being will not punish me for having sought a knowledge of him and failed to obtain it."

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"Luck is a word devoid of sense nothing can exist without a cause."

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"She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying."

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