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#posses

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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.


Marcus Tullius Cicero


#every man #friends #goats #how #man

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.


Barbara de Angelis


#any #cannot #could #enough #force

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.


Saint Teresa of Avila


#endeavor #follies #god #him #like

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.


Charles Babbage


#certain #conferred #degree #holds #knowledge

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.


Fredrik Bajer


#example #for example #idea #immediately #indeed

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.


Thomas Babington Macaulay


#highest #possess #power #proof #virtue

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.


Geoffrey Beene


#belonging #born #clothes #form #into

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.


Eric Hoffer


#common #everyday #indifferent #likely #only

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.


Max Born


#evil #oneself #only #possession #root

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.


Andre Breton


#booty #desire #industry #less #nothing






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