None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza

Quotes November 23, 2008

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Flattery
Quotations by Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. Agnes Repplier

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.KnowledgeQuotations by Rutherford D. Roger

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.Bores and BoredomQuotations by Ellen Parr

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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.AfflictionQuotations by Sir Richard Burton

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.GovernmentQuotations by Alexander Hamilton

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Retirement: Statutory senility.RetirementQuotations by Emmett O’Donnell