Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
"It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are."
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Trifles
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Blaise Pascal
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
"A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us."
Joseph Conrad
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own."
Arthur Conan Doyle
Writer, Physician
"I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle."
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"O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles."
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"It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles."
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"Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle"
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"Trifles make the sum of life."
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"How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture."
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"Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles."
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"Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable."
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"Man shows his character best in trifles."
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"Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles."
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"He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little."
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"Men are led by trifles."
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"Out of many things a great heap will be formed. [Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.]"
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"Trifles, trifles are what matter!"
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"The smallest hair throws its shadow. [Ger., Das kleinste Harr wirft seinen Schatten.]"
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"At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles."
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"Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us."
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"Alas, how love can trifle with itself!"
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"We make trifles of terrors, Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear."
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"Small minds are captivated by trifles."
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"It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution."
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