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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.


Marcus Tullius Cicero


#brute #experience #instinct #instructed #minds

Necessity makes even the timid brave.


Sallust


#even #makes #necessity #timid

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.


Jerry Pournelle


#both #convenient #dispense #doubt #equally

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#beauty #courage #honor #ignorance #money

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news


John Muir


#materialism #mountains #nature #wildness-is-a-necessity #life

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.


Isabelle Adjani


#been #brought #initiation #karmic #life

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.


Maya Angelou


#allowed #any #i #love #love is

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.


Edward Bellamy


#close #first #life #necessity #recreation

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.


Thomas A. Edison


#first #necessity #progress

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.


Margaret Cavendish


#born #bred #children #counsel #examples






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