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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard. ↗

— Phaedrus

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The devil himself had probably redesigned Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts. ↗

— Anthony Price

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Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

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If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

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I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays. ↗

— Anthony Quinn

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A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything. ↗

— Ramakrishna

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The real "action" in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

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We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

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