#with

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#criminality #enemy #folly #gates #luxury

Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#back #i #into #just #lifted

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#freedom #trembling #without

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#constant #constant need #doing #far #feel

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#belief #flourishes #intelligence #only #withers

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#computer #frustrating #hardware #manuals #reading

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#many #too #truffles #without

I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#age #big #blonde #clumsy #cute

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#comes #destroy #down #everything #head

Democracy without morality is impossible. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#impossible #morality #without