#quarrel

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love. ↗

— Jean Racine

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The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

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Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels. ↗

— Voltaire

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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. ↗

— Daniel Webster

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It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. ↗

— Dean Inge

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Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive. ↗

— Antisthenes

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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I had a lovers quarrel with the world. ↗

— Robert Frost

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