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"...each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden - forbidden for him. It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa. Actually it's only a question of convenience. Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them things are forbidden to them that every honorable man will do any day in the year and other things are allowed to them that are generally despised. Each person must stand on his own feet." »Hermann Hesse
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"The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men." »Homer
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"I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble." »Caesar Augustus
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"It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living." »Andrew Schneider
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"Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the city of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the city of God." »Saint Augustine
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"Whatever happened to that old-fashioned Grandpa If he still survives, he must be hiding in the small towns. You sure don't see him very often in the big city. The big-city Grandpa has gone big time. ... He is the life of every party, and out to prove he is just as young as he ever was. A grandchild who makes the mistake of calling him 'Gramps' is lucky if he isn't rewarded by a quick kick in the stomach." »Hal
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"Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it's hurtful." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take." »Peter McWilliams
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"Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end." »Tyron Edwards
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"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself." »Oscar Wilde
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""With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech unsanctioned, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied - chains us all irrevocably."" »Aaron Satie
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"It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." »Voltaire
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"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." »Voltaire
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"It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour." »Asoka
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"It is forbidden to decry other sects the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour." »Asoka
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"It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry." »H.L. Mencken
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"The city is the teacher of the man." »Simondes of Ceos
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"To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all." »Spiro Agnew
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"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo." »Desmond Morris
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"In New York city, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans." »Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man." »Hesiod
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"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village If you would know, and not be known, live in a city." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one." »Aristotle
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"It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas city in order to be unhappy." »Groucho Marx
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"A city is a large community where people are lonesome together." »Herbert V. Prochnow
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"We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair." »Mignon McLaughlin
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"Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone." »Mark Twain
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"Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm." »John F. Kennedy
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"Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city." »Anne Michaels
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