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...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to true virtue [arete] (because he is in touch with true Beauty). The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.
- Plato

Falling into true love, is not taking a rope to climb out
- Benny Bellamacina

There is no form to this story because it is true, or at least as close to true as I have been able to make it.
- Kevin Brockmeier

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
- Phillips Brooks

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
- Phillips Brooks

Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.
- Chuck Palahniuk

The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.
- Chuck Palahniuk

My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
- Gilbert K Chesterton

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
- Bertrand Russell

I've never understood why looking hot had to be equated with sex and conquest. Whatever happened to anticipation, to courtship, to true love? Can't a person look hot and not have it mean something? Call me an old-fashioned Naomi bitch, but I'm holding out for true love. Even if it's an unattainable fantasy
- David Levithan

When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel.
- David Levithan

I've never understood why looking hot has to be equated with sex and conquest. Whatever happened to anticipation, to courtship, to true love? Can't a person look hot and not have it mean something?
- Rachel Cohn

We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.
- George Crook

Of course, apologies are rarely acceptable to true believers - or to anyone who believes in *pure* good, or in pure evil.
- John Irving

The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity.
- Olivia Goldsmith

When the immense drugged universe explodes
In a cascade of unendurable colour
And leaves us gasping naked,
This is no more than the ectasy of chaos:
Hold fast, with both hands, to that royal love
Which alone, as we know certainly, restores
Fragmentation into true being.
Ecstasy of Chaos
- Robert Graves

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.
- Chaim Potok

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
- Horace Mann

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.
- Maria Monk

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
- Novalis

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of
life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they
continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It
is as though they were traveling abroad.
- Marcel Proust

There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition.
- Paul Ryan

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
- Charles Simmons

Health, wealth, reputation, and status are all mere ingredients of happiness. The key to true well-being is being able to manage them capably.
- Kentetsu Takamori

From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.
- Paul Tsongas

There are many shortcuts to failure, but there are no shortcuts to true success.
- Orrin Woodward

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