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  • If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Departed Quotes , Would Be Quotes
  • If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Desire Quotes , Would Be Quotes
  • The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Would Be Quotes , Rewards Quotes