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Letter "B" » be well
«It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.»
Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Philosopher)
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adjusted, adjusts, be well, measure, profoundly, sick, well-adjusted
«In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.»
Author: Denis Diderot
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«It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society»
«O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever! / Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.»
«If a Man casually exceeds, let him fast the next Meal, and all may be well again, provided it be not too often done; as if he exceed at Dinner, let him refrain a Supper, &c.»
«If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: / But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.»
«If young men had wit and old men strength everything might be well done»
«If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.»
«If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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association, bestowed, be well, bind, bring forward, diligent, enumerate, enumerated, enumerating, fruitless, in view, sciences, ties, Ties That Bind, treatment
«It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors»
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