#persons

Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death. ↗

— John Pearson

#birth #carry #common #death #die

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state. ↗

— Plato

#allowed #either #good #home #lie

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves. ↗

— Protagoras

#hold #let us #making #our #ourselves

And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons. ↗

— Robert Rainy

#christians #continue #could #devoted #much

It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#chance #cleaning #even #give #i

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. ↗

— Eustace Budgell

#friendship #good #habitual #happiness #inclination

In planning an attack, persons have various roles. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#persons #planning #roles #various

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#love #persons #qualities #reason #sometimes

We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families. ↗

— Marion Jones

#families #only #other #our #persons

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#almost #always #consisting #cost #false