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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

It's an amazing thing to say, 'I'm beautiful,' without feeling like you're cocky.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them?

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect.

Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.