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Quotes about World


I will maintain it before the whole world.

Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière

He [Molière] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

In the best of possible worlds the château of monseigneur the baron was the most beautiful of châteaux, and madame the best of possible baronesses.

François Marie Arouet de Voltaire

See how the world rewards its votaries.

Gesta Romanorum

The richest monarch in the Christian world;
The sun in my own dominions never sets.

Friedrich von Schiller

There is another and a better world.

August von Kotzebue

There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.

Leo, Count Tolstoy

He that prefers the beautiful to the useful in life will, undoubtedly, like children who prefer sweetmeats to bread, destroy his digestion and acquire a very fretful outlook on the world.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

New Testament

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

New Testament

The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

New Testament

The true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

New Testament

God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty.

New Testament

The fashion of this world passeth away.

New Testament

Of whom the world was not worthy.

New Testament

The world, the flesh, and the devil.

Book of Common Prayer

The pomps and vanity of this wicked world.

Book of Common Prayer

With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.

Book of Common Prayer

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, until philosophers become kings in this world, or until those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers.

"But, Rome, 'tis alone, with awful sway, to rule Mankind; and make the world obey; Disposing peace, and War, thy own Majestick Way. To tame the Proud, the fetter'd Slave to free; These are Imperial Arts, and worthy thee." -Anchises to Aeneas in the Underworld

If the world is to be improved it must be by the exercise of individual charity

The world’s getting narrower all the time.

The urgent task is the task of conservation. The hold the complex totality of linguistic meaning within a shape you can isolate from the dirty world

It was a matter of being integer vitae and also of having committed himself to a world in which pure and simple aggression was to be accepted as part of the human fabric.

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