Elyse DeBarre Favourite Quotes Collection

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A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder)Suffering 242
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Your silence gives consent.
PlatoConsent 221
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No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Publilius SyrusAmazing 182
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History is written by the victors.
Winston ChurchillHistory 214
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An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Winston ChurchillOpportunities 262
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Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
Winston Churchillpolitics 319
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Friends are proved by adversity.
Marcus Tullius CiceroFriends 125
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicerobook 128
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The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
Marcus Tullius CiceroGlory 138
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An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWar 176
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The enemy is within the gates it is with our own luxury our own folly our own criminality that we have to contend.
Marcus Tullius CiceroVirtue 216
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Marcus Tullius CiceroChildren 291
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The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.
Marcus Aurelius AntoninusAnger 62
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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus AureliusEscape 126
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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
Marcus Aurelius AntoninusStrength 127
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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Marcus AureliusTruth 326
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Fortune favors the brave.
VirgilBravery 101
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They can conquer who believe they can.
VirgilBeliefs 98
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They succeed, because they think they can.
VirgilSuccess 139
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There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
Marcus AureliusPower 106
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Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.
Marcus AureliusAssumptions 118
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A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
Marcus AureliusIntegrity 273
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Never assume the obvious is true.
William SafireAssume 126
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder)Weakness 91
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