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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace, Through, Cannot

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller

Happiness, True, Through

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
Lao Tzu

Good, Honesty, Honest

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Helen Keller

Great, Justice, Sense

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Marie Curie

Life, Confidence, Easy

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller

Happiness, True, Through

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Aristotle

Best, Government, Equality

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Napoleon Hill

Success, Great, Failure

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Henry Ford

Happiness, After, Service

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
Chanakya

Peace, Happiness, Spiritual

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
Voltaire

Time, Perfection, Hand

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
Pope John Paul II

Justice, Cannot, Violence

Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
H. L. Mencken

Christian, Christ, Superior

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
H. L. Mencken

Age, Lie, Dignity

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Down, Away, Body

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness, May, Find

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Abigail Adams

Learning, Chance, Diligence

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
Saint Augustine

Experience, Mind, Thoughts

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Lord Chesterfield

Art, Wisdom, Wise

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Education, Often, Natural

Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.
Morihei Ueshiba

Love, Place, Earth

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Simone Weil

Great, Someone, Reality

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson

Success, Business, Progress

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
Thomas Aquinas

Happiness, Good, Through

When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him.
Hedy Lamarr

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
Eric Hoffer

Social, Quality, Results

That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Freedom, Sacrifice, Suffering

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave Flaubert

Stupidity, Democracy, Dream

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
David Herbert Lawrence

Human, Why, Far

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
John Milton

Men, Wise, Liberty

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