10 Quotes

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Your very silence shows you agree.
- Euripides

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
- George Bernard Shaw

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
- Benjamin Franklin

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
- Walt Whitman

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Popularity? It is glory's small change.
- Victor Hugo

Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
- William Shakespeare

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
- Chuang-tzu

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
- Benjamin Haydon

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