Claudianus Quotes

#1. To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.

Virginia Woolf

#2. Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

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#3. Death renders all equal.

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#4. Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.

Ellen Terry

#5. I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.

Buchi Emecheta

#6. The covetous man is always poor.

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#7. The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.

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#8. The honest truth is that it was just traumatizing with the piano, with the authority of the piano teacher, getting rapped across the knuckles, and so whenever you put a piece of music in front of me, there's a Pavlovian reaction where it starts off.

Hans Zimmer

#9. Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.

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#10. Whoever desires is always poor.

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#11. I want to be a perfect daddy, he whispers.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#12. Here is a fine field for talent.

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#13. The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.

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#14. Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their gifts.

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#15. Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's cup.

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#16. Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.

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#17. I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

Clint Eastwood

#18. They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall.

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#19. I use honey to condition my hair and eggs for protein. Also, mayonnaise and olive oil are great options for keeping it moisturized.

Tasha Smith

#20. Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.

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#21. What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.

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#22. Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth.

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#23. The best manners are stained by haughtiness.

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#24. The fickle populace always change with the prince.

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#25. Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.

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#26. A severe war lurks under the show of peace.

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#27. Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.

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#28. He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion.

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#29. Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction.

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#30. He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.

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#31. Nor is heaven always at peace.

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