Alcibiades famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.
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Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made. And we cannot fix the exact point at which our empire shall stop; we have reached a position in which we must not be content with retaining but must scheme to extend it, for, if we cease to rule others, we are in danger of being ruled ourselves. Nor can you look at inaction from the same point of view as others, unless you are prepared to change your habits and make them like theirs.
-- Alcibiades
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I had a long distance relationship going while we were writing the album so a lot of it is about that constant struggle— you look up at the moon and wonder if that person is looking at it too. I was trying to write love songs that weren’t sappy Ben Affleck movie songs, but kind of a … man’s love songs
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It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one's working here and one's working there, or one's staying at home and one's off someplace else.
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And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
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I miss your love, I miss your touch But I'm feeling you every day. And I can almost hear you say You've come a long way baby...
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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds His delight in having you treat with Him personally and in all confidence.
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Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.
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Darkness is only light's absence.
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Why is love intensified by absence?
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