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Quotations by Subject: Love (162 quotes)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.: Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), 'Jugurthine War,' 41 B.C.
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I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to Count Diodati, 1807
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), 'The Strenuous Life,' 1900
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), 'Prejudices: Fourth Series,' 1924
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.: Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), letter to Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives, May 19, 1952
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Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592), 'De l'experience,' 1580-88
I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592), 'De l'utile et de l'honnete,' 1580-88
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.: Pierre Corneille (1606 - 1684), 'The Cid,' 1636
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770
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Good order is the foundation of all things.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), 'Reflections on the Revolution in France,' 1790

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