"A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue."

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Source : "Institutio Oratoria". Textbook by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, VI. 3. 5,

Quintilian

#Laughing Quotes #Too Much Quotes #Cost Quotes

“Women, rouse yourselves! The tocsin of reason resounds through the whole universe: recognize your rights. The powerful empire of nature is no longer surrounded by prejudices, fanaticism, superstition and lies.”

Source : Olympe de Gouges (1989). “The Rights of Woman”
“This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven.”

Source : FaceBook post by Rick Bragg from May 17, 2013
“'10' was amazing! I had no career before '10' and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.”
“The reality is that until we can agree on a formula that reduces tariffs globally we cannot meet this Doha promise for development. In order to keep momentum post-Hong Kong, the European Union must be willing to move.”
“Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.”

Source : George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”
“My mom was amazing. She believed in me and we were best friends.”
“Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.”
“Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. Music, acting, poetry proceed in the one mighty stream; sculpture, painting, all the arts of design, in the other. There is no primary art outside these two arts, for their origin is far earlier than man himself; and dancing came first.”

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