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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.


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Greater things are believed of those who are absent
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
JOHANN VON GOETHE When you have the strength to stand up for yourself ,the ones you love and the dignity and honor to ...
GARY F EVANS... We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted...
JOHN GREEN Are you a stupid sheep in the flock or a free eagle in the sky? Look at the mirror, what are you? Ar...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Who are you?” I asked.
“Are we playing that game again?” she asked me with a nice smile. ...
NICO J. GENES who are you
really?

you are not a name
or a height, or a weight
or a gende...
M.K Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... I wanted to show these people who he really was. And pain always did that, took the insides out." VERONICS ROTH We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be.
CHARLIE FLETCHER You are not born with beauty, your beauty is created by who you are. Your inner beauty is more impor...
EMILY COUSSONS And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them an...
ROBERT EMMET SHERWOOD None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
BARUCH SPINOZA There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
PROVERB I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment...
RANSOM RIGGS Our biggest fear is to go anywhere near who you are.
JOHNNY DEPP People are who they are and, try as you might, you cannot make them be what you want them to be.
LEILA SALES Do not hide who you are. These are a nurturer's hands. Cooking is hard and sometimes painful work, b...
AMY E. REICHERT What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar...
T.J. KLUNE Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who h...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things ha...
ANN LANDERS We're all in this together. You are not alone. All lines and divisions are artificial. We are one. W...
AKIROQ BROST There are people in the world having greater faith in those things which they do not understand.
VIKRANT PARSAI There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make ...
VERA FARMIGA I believed it in January and after eight months ... my enthusiasm and confidence are even greater.
A.G. LAFLEY Those who are held wise among men, and who search for the reason of things, are those who bring the ...
EURIPIDES As to the ancient historians, from THOMAS PAINE It's not who you are, but what you're made of. It's not where you come from, but where you're going ...
CAREW PAPRITZ Those who work hard and constantly seek to be visible to their superiors, those who showcase their h...
ABHISHEK RATNA The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the chal...
CARL LEWIS ...in the end it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what ...
LISA UNGER Keep on smiling, treat people with respect, be cool even if some may not treat you the same. How peo...
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them.

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VERONICS ROTH It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Where fear is present, excuses are present and Where fear is absent, excuses are absent.
LEBOGANG MARUMO The people who tend to get hurt while running are those who are just getting started or those who ar...
FRANK KELLY Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Very truly, I tell you, servants are not greater than their master, nor are messengers greater than ...
JESUS CHRIST It’s said that there are men who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who w...
DEBBIE MACOMBER Be a master of yourself.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.
ED FOREMAN There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and t...
PROVERB Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to u...
LEO TOLSTOY Fate’ and ‘coincidence’ are the mythological derivatives authored by those who refuse to see a...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Things are worse. The gap's getting wider -- between those who have and those who do not.
HENRY SHELTON One who neither hates the presence of enlightenment, activity, and delusion nor desires for them whe...
BHAGAVAD GITA We all have a duty to define who we are
SOTONYE ANGA Sometimes we represent our weakness as if it were bad. We don’t think it’s okay to be weak…We ...
HENRY CLOUD I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL When you come up against any type of bullies whether it be physical or psychological they all look f...
GARY F EVANS... When all are talking, no one is probably listening; but if no one is speaking then perhaps all are o...
ANUJ SOMANY Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M Those who want fewer things are nearest to the gods
SOCRATES I am who I am. U r who u r. Be who u r. Don't let nobody tell u different.
TOMMI POLO Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU There are people who make things happen,
those who watch what happens,
and those who wonder ...
UNKNOWN We've identified 800 believed to be gang members...out of that, 80 are active...some of those involv...
CESAR CORTEZ I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which exp...
SōSEKI NATSUME By who? I don't know -- there are things greater than me but the feeling is that they wanted us out.
FRANCESCO TOTTI If you are better than all others, then you are greater than all those.
VIKRANT PARSAI I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that...
OSCAR WILDE Life is a progression of becoming who we are.
J.R. RIM Know who you are and be who you are insofar as it is deem fit, for there is nothing so contemptuous ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
EDGAR ALLAN POE There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never wer...
ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never wer...
STANISLAW J. LEC There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never wer...
ROBERT KENNEDY The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed
ADOLF HITLER The higher truths are, the more cautious one must be with them; otherwise, they are converted into c...
NIKOLAI GOGOL I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many peo...
EDIE FALCO The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for...
ISAAC NEWTON Facts are stupid things.
, A SLIGHT MISQUOTE OF JOHN ADAMS, "FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS." Most of us are living at a pace that is not only unsustainable; it's also unbiblical.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The absent are always in the wrong.
ENGLISH PROVERB The absent are always in the wrong
ENGLISH PROVERB There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who are remembered and those who are forgotten. Th...
LORRIN L. LEE There are certain things women are better at than men.
ADAM CAROLLA There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men’s wives.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON There are two kinds of people in this world, those that watch things happen, and those that make thi...
RALPH M. DESIANO There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. An...
GARY SNYDER I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Four things greater than all things are,Women and Horses and Power and War.
RUDYARD KIPLING Four things greater than all things are, - Women and Horses and Power and War
RUDYARD KIPLING What fools are those who spend their time constructing defenses against things there are no defenses...
R.J. LAWRENCE Two categories of people can be found in the world today. There are those who make things happen and...
BENJAMIN SUULOLA A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE I did not want to make a conclusion today and tell those who were absent to accept it.
YASUHIRO YOSHIKAWA The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas
LOIS WYSE He's just put it all together. He's a fantastically talented, strong, gifted athlete. But with all t...
BARRY LARKIN There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men’s wives.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON The basic problem that we confront is given that the advantages [of globalization] are so much great...
ALAN GREENSPAN The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ev...
JODI PICOULT In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND We at Apple had forgotten who we were. One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroe...
STEVE JOBS

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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
TACITUS No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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TACITUS When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
TACITUS When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
TACITUS To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
TACITUS It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
TACITUS A bad peace is even worse than war.
TACITUS In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
TACITUS Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
TACITUS Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
TACITUS The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
TACITUS As for myself, may the sweet Muses, as Virgil says, bear me away to their holy places where sacred s...
TACITUS The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
TACITUS We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealt...
TACITUS Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be tho...
TACITUS The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear ...
TACITUS If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.
TACITUS Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
TACITUS To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderne...
TACITUS Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
TACITUS So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
TACITUS Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
TACITUS They make a wilderness and call it peace.
TACITUS Posterity will pay everyone their due.
TACITUS It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
TACITUS Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
TACITUS All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
TACITUS The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
TACITUS All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
TACITUS Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
TACITUS When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
TACITUS Posterity gives every man his true value.
TACITUS In all things there is a law of cycles.
TACITUS The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
TACITUS It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
TACITUS Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than ...
TACITUS All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first,...
TACITUS Things forbidden have a secret charm.
TACITUS A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing ...
TACITUS The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
TACITUS There will be vice as long as there are men.
TACITUS It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. - Agricola.
TACITUS Things orbidden have a secret charm.
TACITUS A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
TACITUS The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms. Armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor ca...
TACITUS Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
TACITUS The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.
TACITUS The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
TACITUS The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
TACITUS Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly mis...
TACITUS Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
TACITUS It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found...
TACITUS Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil ...
TACITUS Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
TACITUS He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will n...
TACITUS Forbidden things have a secret charm.
TACITUS Custom adapts itself to expediency.
TACITUS The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
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TACITUS Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
TACITUS He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempe...
TACITUS Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
TACITUS There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
TACITUS So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, other...
TACITUS Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) The most seditious is the most cowardly. [Lat., Seditiosissimus quisque ignavus.]
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and t...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) When a woman has lost her chastity, she will shrink from no crime. [Lat., Neque femina amissa pud...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hat...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. [Lat., Utque alios industria...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of a...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [Lat., Aspere fa...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) He shone with the greater splendor, because he was not seen. [Lat., Eo magis praefulgebat quod non...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) Blood is thicker than water.
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The sun sets without thy assistance.
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam a...
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The hatred of relatives is the most violent. [Lat., Accerima proximorum odia.]
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nem...
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour degu...
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured. [Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse ...
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin ...
CORNELIUS TACITUS No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
CORNELIUS TACITUS The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws.
CORNELIUS TACITUS It is the rare fortuene of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
CORNELIUS TACITUS There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
CORNELIUS TACITUS That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
CORNELIUS TACITUS Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
CORNELIUS TACITUS In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be estab...
CORNELIUS TACITUS I am my nearest neighbour.
CORNELIUS TACITUS He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempe...
CORNELIUS TACITUS Custom adapts itself to expediency
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Forbidden things have a secret charm
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, c...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Rumor is not always wrong
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
MARCUS CLAUDIUS TACITUS The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fea...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The unknown always seems sublime
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Posterity gives every man his true value.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have the most power; mental and moral excellence require pe...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor ca...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS One who is allowed to sin, sins less
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Love of fame is the last thing even the wise give up
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Posterity will pay everyone their due.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS It is human nature to hate those whom you have injured
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS A bad peace is even worse than war.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS We are corrupted by prosperity
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly mis...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS When monarchs through their bloodthirsty commanders lay waste a country, they dignify their atrocity...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Bitter the jest when satire comes too near truth and leaves a sharp sting behind it
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Whatever is unknown is magnified
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it bri...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Reason and calm judgment: the qualities especially belonging to a leader.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The hatred of those who are near to us is the most violent
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Greater things are believed of those who are absent
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The hatred of relatives is the most violent
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten,...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil ...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderne...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be tho...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing ...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first,...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The illicit has an added charm
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS There will be vice as long as there are men
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS