“It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.”
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“Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.”
“Blood alone moves the wheels of history.”
“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.”
“The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.”
“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”
“In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.”
“This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.”
“All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.”
“One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.”
“There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.”
“Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.”
“It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.”
“It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.”
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
“Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.”
“A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.”
“Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.”
“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.”
“The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.”
“Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.”
“Change alone is unchanging.”
“Health consists with temperance alone.”
“The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.”