"No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent"
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"A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves."
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"The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame."
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"A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution."
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"Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it."
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"If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short."
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"I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything."
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"I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray."
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"No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all."
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"I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill."
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"In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors."
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"We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish."
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"Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it."
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"While Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled; And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled."
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"I wish to walk in such a line as will give most general satisfaction."
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"As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it."
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"A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it."
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"What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past."
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"Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life, one adjective only which will describe it. One must search until one has discovered them, this noun, this verb, this adjective, and never rest content with approximations, never resort to trickery, however happy, or to vulgarism, in order to dodge the difficulty."
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"It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me."
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