#persons

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death. ↗

— John Pearson

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American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state. ↗

— Plato

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It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

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Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves. ↗

— Protagoras

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This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

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And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons. ↗

— Robert Rainy

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All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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