Plato Quotes, Self Esteem Quotes, Lying Quotes

The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.

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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

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The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.

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Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.

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The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Lying Quotes , Writing Quotes

In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.

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[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left for Muslims lies in their observance of the God-made law.

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With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not only see very differently the things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the senses we have.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Lying Quotes , Hands Quotes

Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Lying Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. It seeks to show new perspectives and other choices. It is a way to help expand and liberate the consciousness; our experiences, understandings, imaginings, options and thereby our lives.

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Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Lying Quotes , Silence Quotes

[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others; and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.

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In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond.

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For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.

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In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.

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If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

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Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mountain of bones, and wondered at the secrets that might lie behind his yellow eyes.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Lying Quotes , Cat Quotes

To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.

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