#tate

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#after #failure #father #president #states

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#nature #profit #right #state

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#death #desirable #even #frequently #human

If an heir is equal to his money, it serves him; if not, it destroys him. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#equality

I am the state. ↗

— Louis XIV

#i #i am #state

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria. ↗

— Sting

#exist #hysteria #i #perpetual #state

We make our house a home, but the sooner the mortgage is paid off, the sooner it truly turns into our own home. ↗

— Celso Cukierkorn

#home

One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life. ↗

— Athanasius

#imitate #life #mind #possibly #pure

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. ↗

— Russell Banks

#clever #desire #essentially #i #imitate

I have seven apartments in the house to keep in a state fit to be inspected everyday by Gentlemen. ↗

— Grace Darling

#fit #gentlemen #house #i #inspected