Quotes

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“Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.”
Virtute enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse quam videri volunt.

Section 98
See also Esse quam videri
Source: Laelius De Amicitia – Laelius On Friendship (44 BC)

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“hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!”

Eric Jerome Dickey (1961) American author

Source: Liar's Game

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“The Chinese say it is better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.”

Laila, p. 250
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

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“To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.”

Janeane Garofalo (1964) comedian, actress, political activist, writer

standup performance, date unknown[citation needed]
Standup routines

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“Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.”

Source: 1920s, The Future of an Illusion (1927), Ch. 7

“It's better to regret what you have done than what you haven't.”

Paul Arden (1940–2008) writer

Source: Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite

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“The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.”

Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst
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“Describe plum-blossoms?
Better than my verses… white
Wordless Butterflies”

Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet

Source: Japanese Haiku