“ Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Princes give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt; it is all I require of them. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Quickness in believing evil without having sufficiently examining it is the effect of pride and laziness. We wish to find the guilty, and we do not wish to trouble ourselves in examining the crime. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 2.7K
“ That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
- 173
“ That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 3.6K
“ The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself. ”
- Alexander Paterson- Copy
- 4K
“ The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe. ”
- Charlotte Lennox- Copy
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“ The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends. ”
- Joseph Jacobs- Copy
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“ In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature. ”
- Alvin Kernan- Copy
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“ War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. ”
- Thomas Hobbes- Copy
- 178
“ All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world. ”
- Victor Cousin- Copy
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“ Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. ”
- Rich Kulawiec- Copy
- 437
“ I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself. ”
- Robert Parker- Copy
- 616
“ We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment. ”
- Margaret Thatcher- Copy
- 870
“ Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ”
- Arthur C. Clarke- Copy
- 513
“ Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. ”
- James Klass- Copy
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“ Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself. ”
- Sir John Vanbrugh- Copy
- 232
“ One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind. ”
- Robert Collier- Copy
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“ God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. ”
- Paul Valery- Copy
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“ I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ”
- Michel de Montaigne- Copy
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“ A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 376
“ There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool. ”
- Edward Teller- Copy
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“ Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art. ”
- Pablo Picasso- Copy
- 3.5K
“ By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. ”
- Nikos Kazantzakis- Copy
- 1.2K
“ I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme. ”
- Henry James- Copy
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“ If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it. ”
- William A. Orton- Copy
- 4K
“ Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them. ”
- Isadora Duncan- Copy
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