Apuleius famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.
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If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
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It is a difficult matter to keep love imprisoned.
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But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.
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Venus herself, if she were bold, would not be Venus.
-- Apuleius
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If we can string together some wins this year, maybe I'll be a close second-or third behind Bart Starr-on their favorite quarterback list.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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I Can't win the World Cup alone
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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
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A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
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The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
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And I know one thing more - that the Europe of the future cannot exist without commemorating all those, regardless of their nationality, who were killed at that time with complete contempt and hate, who were tortured to death, starved, gassed, incinerated, and hanged...
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If American industry continues to sow contempt for the consumer, it will reap contempt from the consumer.
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My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
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