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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway

War, Matter, Crime

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Good, Through, Understand

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
Theodore Roosevelt

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Benjamin Franklin

Present, Fault, Excuse

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Khalil Gibran

Live, Powerful, Humanity

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
Lao Tzu

Good, Evil, Either

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
Aristotle

Time, Happy, Blessed

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Aristotle

Life, Best, Rise

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Aristotle

Same, Once, Times

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
Aristotle

Nature, Moral, Against

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Religion, Reality, Point

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
William Butler Yeats

Happiness, Happy, Growth

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Yourself, Forgive, Return

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, History, Necessary

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Viktor E. Frankl

Life, Cannot, Everyone

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
Henry David Thoreau

Treat, Capable, Esteem

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Jim Rohn

Success, Natural, Neither

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
Henry David Thoreau

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
Robert Frost

Life, Together, Two

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.
Henry David Thoreau

Nation, Soon, Likely

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve

Love, Woman, Hell

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Political, Thinking, Wish

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
Sigmund Freud

Number, Existence, Large

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
Chanakya

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
Albert Camus

Knowledge, Mind, Find

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
Ayn Rand

Good, Stupidity, Desire

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Beautiful, Read

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Faith, Liberty, Cannot

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.
Nelson Mandela

Love, Political, After

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
Groucho Marx

Life, Time, Mind

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