"This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity."

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Source : Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.37, Jazzybee Verlag

Bernard de Mandeville

#Pride Quotes #Names Quotes #Quality Quotes

“Don't worry about being cool. Worry about being the best”
“Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.”

Source : 1970 Going Steady.
“Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.”
“In Buddhism, compassion always goes with wisdom. Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion, and wisdom without compassion is not true wisdom.”

Source : Masao Abe (2016). “Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Part one of a two-volume sequel to Zen and Western Thought”, p.15, Springer
“Wikipedia is so dangerous.”
“The sole fact of having a school to train creative people is absolute lunacy... The idea of 'pedagogical vision' is ignoble, it has nothing to do with art, it's contrary to art. I really believe in teaching, despite what I say.”
“What the artist wishes to do â€” as far as you are concerned â€” is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself.”
“You couldn't be perfect enough to keep the world from betraying you.”

Source : Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.239, Scholastic Inc.

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