Clever tyrants are never punished.
Voltaire
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CINDA WILLIAMS CHIMA How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.
OSCAR WILDE How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!
OSCAR WILDE After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Common sense is not so common.
[Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]
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MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA One does not arrest Voltaire.
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DANIEL TAMMET He realised how much he hated tyrants, the strong who stood on the weak.
JONATHAN RENSHAW God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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VOLTAIRE If you are punished by the rule you set up, you have been punished by the rule you set up.
EPHDAN There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.
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DENNIS MILLER I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
SOURCE UNKNOWN I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
JOHN PEEL How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how
horrible is it to be a mischievous and...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) We need to make sure that those people are swiftly and surely punished, the same way we need to make...
CHRISTOPHER CHRISTIE Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
ULYSSES S. GRANT Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.
PROVERB Let the warning of the tyrants of the past be recognized for it shall be the same one ringing out wh...
SAI MARIE JOHNSON Men are punished by their sins, not for them.
ELBERT HUBBARD We are punished by our sins, not for them.
ELBERT HUBBARD Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
EDMUND BURKE The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!
ELIZABETH WORDSWORTH Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
ELBERT HUBBARD Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.
JAMES BUCHAN Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
KIN HUBBARD We are not punished for our sins, but by them
ELBERT HUBBARD Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT People are not punished for their deeds but by them
RICHARD MATHESON We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
ELBERT HUBBARD Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
DEMOSTHENES Be Clever, Think Clever and Do Clever
ROBIN JAMES We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.
JENNIFER DONNELLY Welcome to life, where the innocent are punished, and the guilty are praised.
ERIC WISE The Cubans are being punished with sanctions in the same way we are,
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CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES The Hardest thing is being punished, without knowing what you're punished for.
OMESH DOOLARAM Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them.
KIN HUBBARD In this case, I completely agree if the attackers are punished.
DIN SYAMSUDIN The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Of all the tyrants the world affords,
Our own affections are the fiercest lords.
EARL OF STERLING The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them
GEORGE SANTAYANA Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.
JOHN STERLING Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
EDMUND BURKE Smart tyrants retire rich
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VOLTAIRE You are very harsh.'
'I have seen the world.
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DENNIS MILLER The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
V.S. NAIPAUL I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.
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JOHN MILTON Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The culprits must be punished,
VLADIMIR PUTIN One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
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SOCRATES Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.
JOSE MARIA AZNAR Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
THOMAS CARLYLE You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
BUDDHA You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA If we're punished, we're punished. My greater concern is how Camden High athletics is perceived.
MARK PEASE Modern tyrants are terror managers. Do not allow your shock to be turned against your freedom.
TIMOTHY D. SNYDER Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished.
[Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi....
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) I don't think that's right. Why are (the families of inmates) being punished?
JAMES MCDONOUGH Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Let tyrants shake their iron rod.
WILLIAM BILLINGS In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at t...
ROBERT T. KIYOSAKI If newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Students are being punished once by the courts, then again by the education system.
ADAM WOLF Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
JEREMY BENTHAM You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Really intelligent people are clever enough to appear stupid
RAPHAEL KSOBIECH The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in...
CLARENCE DARROW The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in ...
CLARENCE DARROW The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in ...
CLARENCE DARROW Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber...
PLATO The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or
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VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.
LARS LARSEN How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
JANE AUSTEN Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
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