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“Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.”
Charlie Chaplin
“Change alone is unchanging.”
Heraclitus
“I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.”
Cyrano de Bergerac
“Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.”
Confucius
“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.”
Thomas Jefferson
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
Thomas Jefferson
“One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.”
Andre Gide
“Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.”
Sigmund Freud
“In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.”
John Barrymore
“It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.”
Billy Idol
“Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.”
Marilyn Monroe
“It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.”
Marilyn Monroe
“I restore myself when I'm alone.”
Marilyn Monroe
“The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.”
Stephen Hawking
“ Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. ”
Horace
“Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.”
Plato
“Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.”
Coco Chanel
“It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.”
Salvador Dali
“The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.”
Stendhal
“Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.”
Honore de Balzac
“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.”
Lord Byron
“What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.”
Lord Byron
“In solitude, where we are least alone.”
Lord Byron
“It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.”
Sophocles
“Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.”
Sophocles
“The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.”
Sophocles
