Cato the Younger
Politician
"All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom."
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Possessed
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Freddie Mercury
Musician, Singer
"I'm possessed by love - but isn't everybody?"
Thomas Mann
Novelist
"If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it."
Aristotle
Philosopher
"Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages."
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher, Statesman
"Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it."
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"every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . ."
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"Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed."
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"I feel as though that was someone else playing. I was possessed!"
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"Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed."
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"An idea discovered is much better possessed."
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"Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!"
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"Was there ever any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it?"
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"a man possessed with peace is always smiling"
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