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Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Khalil Gibran

Wisdom, Selfish, Laugh

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Funny, Laugh

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Change, Jealousy, Passion

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
Aristotle Onassis

Money, Game, Goal

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Rock, Single, Him

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy, Doubt, Lives

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
Thomas Carlyle

Life, Individual, Behavior

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Loved, Realize, Almost

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
Calvin Coolidge

Great, Alone, Others

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
B. R. Ambedkar

Religion, True, Cannot

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
Meister Eckhart

God, Father, Everything

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
John Ruskin

Beauty, Light, Enjoyed

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Salman Rushdie

Freedom, Expression, Exist

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
E. M. Forster

Life, Courage, Either

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
Harry S. Truman

Friend, Put, Whenever

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
William Hazlitt

Interest, Subject

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
Aphra Behn

Love, Secret, Pleasure

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
Stanley Kubrick

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.
Max Muller

Child, Soon, Strangers

That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.
Max Muller

God, Home, Reality

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
Simone Weil

Suffering, Else, Poverty

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.
Alexander Chase

Daily, Shocking, Occurrence

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
Eric Hoffer

Everything, Become, Possible

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.
Joseph Wood Krutch

Time, True, Game

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Knowledge, Desire, Pleasure

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
A. E. Housman

Morning, Experience, Poetry

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.
Franz Kafka

Free, Support, Spirit

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
Henrik Ibsen

Life, Home, Beautiful

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.
Brian Eno

Music, Time, Once

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.
Christopher Nolan

Power, Started, Meaning

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