"The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others."

-- Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

#People Quotes #Vices Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.”
“If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.”
“There are no really new stories anymore.”
“Everyone works in the service of man. We doctors work directly on man himself... The great mystery of man is Jesus: 'He who visits a sick person, helps me,' Jesus said... Just as the priest can touch Jesus, so do we touch Jesus in the bodies of our patients... We have opportunities to do good that the priest doesn't have. Our mission is not finished when medicines are no longer of use. We must bring the soul to God; our word has some authority... Catholic doctors are so necessary!”
“I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.”
“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”

Source : "The Prince". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, Ch. 22, 1513.
“Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.”

Source : Lectures on the English Comic Writers "On Wit and Humor" (1818)
“I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.”

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