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Profligate Quotes

In fact its quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it Picture Quote #1

Still, I have been no one’s enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares Picture Quote #1

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them Picture Quote #1

Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste Picture Quote #1

We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as much oil as it produces, and around the profligate wastefulness of the wars and campaigns required to defend such consumption. In recent years we have defined our national interest largely in terms of the oil fields and pipelines we need to procure fuel Picture Quote #1

The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord Picture Quote #1

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It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world’s opinion of himself Picture Quote #1

There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs until the struggle is over. Women find this point in childbirth; men in battle Picture Quote #1

Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature’s profligate generosity Picture Quote #1

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just Picture Quote #1

If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men’s failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal’s natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle? Picture Quote #1

It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal Picture Quote #1

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A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations generally more poor, always more profligate, than it found them Picture Quote #1

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In fact its quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it (Profligate Quotes) Still, I have been no one’s enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares (Profligate Quotes) Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them (Profligate Quotes) Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste (Profligate Quotes) We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as much oil as it produces, and around the profligate wastefulness of the wars and campaigns required to defend such consumption. In recent years we have defined our national interest largely in terms of the oil fields and pipelines we need to procure fuel (Profligate Quotes) The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord (Profligate Quotes) It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world’s opinion of himself (Profligate Quotes) There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs until the struggle is over. Women find this point in childbirth; men in battle (Profligate Quotes) Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature’s profligate generosity (Profligate Quotes) Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just (Profligate Quotes) If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men’s failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal’s natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle? (Profligate Quotes) It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal (Profligate Quotes) A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations generally more poor, always more profligate, than it found them (Profligate Quotes)