"Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other."

-- Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon

#Pain Quotes #Evil Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans.”

Source : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 23, 1989.
“Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.”
“In this quiet, peaceful time of twilight there is, in this great circle of life, an awful lot of hunting and fishing and catching and killing and dying and eating going on all around me. As the old fisherman said, 'That's the way with life. Sometimes you eat well; sometimes you are well-eaten.'”
“Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.”
“I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.”
“Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.”
“My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.”
“Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.”

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