#posse

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal. ↗

— Sallust

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Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#away #else #enjoy #fact #generosity

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#dust #fame #great #into #life

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#adversity #gains #obstacles #only #overcome

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#body #called #democracy #people #possessed

I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#backwards #brain #cat #did #diminished

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#his #man #memory #nothing #poor

The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#condition #consideration #emigrate #fixed #found

In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#always #essentially #everything #god #grace

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

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