“ What we once did 'for the sake of God' we now do for the sake of money. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 59
“ To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. ”
- Alphonse de Lamartine- Copy
- 1.1K
“ A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat. ”
- John Selden- Copy
- 577
“ Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 3.4K
“ To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. ”
- Alphonse de Lamartine- Copy
- 1.1K
“ When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
- 2K
“ One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. ”
- Diogenes Laërtius- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Take most people, they're crazy about cars. I'd rather have a goddamn horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. ”
- J.D. Salinger- Copy
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“ So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 3.3K
“ If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. ”
- Charlotte Bronte- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. ”
- John Keats- Copy
- 3.8K
“ To the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
- 463
“ There's no pleasure on earth that's worth sacrificing for the sake of an extra five years in the geriatric ward of the Sunset Old People's Home, Weston-Super-Mare. ”
- Horace Rumpole- Copy
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“ Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
- 2K
“ Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled, not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. ”
- Georges Bataille- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Deliberately to pursue happiness is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it. ”
- Robert J. McCracken- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake — that little more which is worth all the rest. ”
- Dean Briggs- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 1.8K
“ For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself! ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
- 1.3K
“ For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure… ”
- Gerald Gould- Copy
- 2.9K
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