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All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#because #brothers #civil #civil wars #men

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#faults #had #less #others #our

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#earthly #enjoyment #expectation #fruition #more

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#arrangement #choosing #composure #consists #few

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#his #more #nothing #professional #remedies

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways. ↗

— Paul Kantner

#force #lot #positive #real #seem

You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty. ↗

— John le Carre

#boy #class family #clothes #dirty #down

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#cannot #himself #man #marble #remake

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#close #comes #intuition #perception #reality

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#forms #gift #human #love #multiple