How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.


Marcus Aurelius

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How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
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The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thin...
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A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing ...
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A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods...
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
ANONYMOUS
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius.
MARCUS AURELIUS
A man's thoughts dye his soul, attributed to Marcus Aurelius
ELISABETH ELLIOT
He who says what he likes, hears what he does not like
SPANISH PROVERB
He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
He who says what he likes, must hear what he does not like.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well ...
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A person's worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The worth ...
ALICE MARY HILTON
Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not kn...
ERICH FROMM
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He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.
JOSE RIZAL
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ALISHA MARIGONI
A person who does not know as how the selfish people LOOK LIKE can easily spot them by seeing only t...
ANUJ SOMANY
A man who says that he knows everything, does not know how to be meek.
BRANDITTES CHUA
What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to ...
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He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
CONFUCIUS
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
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He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
He does not weep who does not see.
VICTOR HUGO
An irony of whole life story is that a person who says or does honestly good for others is not so mu...
ANUJ SOMANY
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He's a honest man who does what he says,
STEVE HARVEY
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CLARK MOUSTAKAS
He is a fool who thinks that another does not think.
VIKRANT PARSAI
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WAYNE GRETZKY
Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.
MALCOLM X
In a drama, does one see what comes forth in front of him or does he see after remembering the past?...
DADA BHAGWAN
A poor soul burdened with a corpse,' Epictetus calls you.
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In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who w...
MARK TWAIN
Do what your teacher says but not what he does.
TURKISH PROVERB
Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questio...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
A man should be judged by what he does, not who he is or where he’s from.
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When we find a thinker reflecting or echoing an apparently erroneous, narrow, or even illogical thou...
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How many times does he move? How many times does this little child, who really does not yet have tot...
JUDITH ERWIN
God does not DEMAND
What He does not COMMAND
One these last DAYS
Do what God SAYS...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
I can physically see the effort it takes for him to open his mouth and force out the words. He's spe...
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Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as muc...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF
Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ''lives'' his religion as...
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The fact that he does not tell me the truth all the time makes me not sure of his truth at certain t...
LYDIA DAVIS
This yoga is not possible, for the one who eats too much, or who does not eat at all; who sleeps too...
BHAGAVAD GITA
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Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe w...
THOMAS PAINE
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care th...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'"
"He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.
HILARY MANTEL
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS
An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
How much does he lack himself, he who must have many things?
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To those who would call me a thug or worse because I show passion on a football field - don't ju...
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I'm not a model or an actress; I'm just a 23 year old who likes to talk about science. Why d...
ELISE ANDREW
If your friend says of some picture, "Yes, but what does it mean?" ask him, what his carpet means or...
STEPHEN POTTER
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
He did what a judge should do, not give any indication on any specific case or how he might look at ...
JOHN ROBERTS
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does...
RICHARD AVEDON
He who does not consider others' opinions does not deserve to have his considered in return.
TROY PEW
He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
How much does he lack himself who must have many things?
SEN NO RIKYū
When one does what is within his control, he knows his only weakness ; but when he does beyond his c...
ANUJ SOMANY
A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
He who does not look ahead always remains behind.
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When you are outraged by somebody’s impudence, ask yourself at once, “Can the world exist withou...
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONIUS
You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant....
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He did what a judge should do — not give any indication on any specific case or how he might ...
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A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he th...
LEWIS B HERSHEY
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he th...
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A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he th...
LEWIS B. HERSHEY
Insanity should be defined as someone's perspective that what another person does or thinks is wrong...
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There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few years it should be as natural ...
ALFRED ADLER
He who does not say too much has too much to say.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
The new ambassador's approach is reassuring. This is a person who does not see his post merely as a ...
SERGEI LAVROV
The superior man...does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he ...
CONFUCIUS
...but doth not the person who expends vast sums in the furniture of his house or the ornaments of h...
HENRY FIELDING
What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by ...
THOMAS HARRIS
For I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Who's the bigger person in the end? The man who allows his dog to do what he does or the dog, who gi...
BRUCE DERN
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from w...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from w...
GEORGE NORMAN DOUGLAS
He who does not know how to create should not know.
ANTONIO PORCHIA
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as ...
ALFRED ADLER
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as ...
ALFRED ADLER
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
DAVID HOCKNEY
No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something ba...
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Be like a headland of rock on which the waves break incessantly; but it stands fast and around it th...
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Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, t...
MARCUS AURELIUS
The passing minute is every man's equal possession, but what has once gone by is not ours
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The present joys of life we doubly taste by looking back with pleasure on the past
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You may send poetry to the rich; to poor men give substantial presents
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Zoilus, why do you delight in using a whole pound weight of gold for the setting of a stone, and thu...
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Remember this that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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When the crowd of your admirers is shouting, "Bravo! Hear, hear!" it is not you, Pomponius, but your...
MARCUS AURELIUS
You see these fish carved finely in relief by Phidian art? Add water; they will swim
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When I was ill, you came to me, Doctor, and with great urgency A hundred students brought With you A...
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It is a mistake to think that Acerra reeks of yesterday's liquor: Acerra always drinks till next mor...
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Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, t...
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Rest lightly on her earth, for she trod never heavily on thee
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Do you make a grievance of weighing so many pounds only instead of three hundred? Then why fret abou...
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You say, Senca, that you were violated by robbers, but the robbers deny it
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Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily
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How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with th...
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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams
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Nothing in nature is evil.
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It certainly is uncomfortable for everybody. It's somewhat of an anomaly. We're still in August but ...
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I think if we had the same magnitude of devastation that they had, we would be very much challenged ...
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If it does not fit leave it, if it is not true do not say it.
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To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice
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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee
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The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere
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Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing
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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
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Your face is black, your hair like flame, And one eye's damaged, one foot lame: If, still, you're qu...
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You ask me, Linus what my field out at Nomentum is to yield? Well this it yields to me: the view, my...
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To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize
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The height of farce it is, I ween, To be so perfumed and anointed, And when one's appetite's most ke...
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking
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Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dy...
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys
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Why do you wrap up your neck in a woolen muffler when you are going to recite? The muffler would be ...
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I could do without your face, Chloe, and without your neck, and your hands, and your limbs, and to s...
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