#begets

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.' ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#begets #ennobling #even #evil #forgetting

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#begets #creates #energy #life #oneself

Solitude begets whimsies. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#solitude

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. ↗

— Hippocrates

#fact #former #ignorance #in fact #knowledge

Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#bear #beast #begets #come #constitutes

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#difference #friendship #genius #love #neatness

You never know what show is going to change your life. ↗

— Brion James

#work

I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!' ↗

— Laura Linney

#go #i #just #matter #say

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence. ↗

— James Madison

#confidence #religious #sentiments #surprising #union

Not being busy is something I worry about, but I think work begets work. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#begets #being #being busy #busy #i