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Sa’ib of Tabriz, aka Mirza Muhammad Ali Sa'ib, Saib Isfahani or Sa'ib Of Esfahan NULL
What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.
To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as it is to live without being born.
Danger | Experience | Reward | Risk | Work |
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind. As for any other freedom it is but a mockery and a delusion, for however free you may think yourself, you have to use the door when you go out of the room, nor are you free to make yourself young at will or to profit by the sun at night... Not-being is not freedom.
The good man should be a lover of self (for he will both himself profit by doing noble acts, and will benefit his fellows), but the wicked man should not; for he will hurt both himself and his neighbors, following as he does evil passions.
A king rules as he ought, a tyrant as he lists; a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.
Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.
No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?
Abuse | Advertising | Free speech | Law | Lying | Question | Right | Speech | Time |
Knowledge is not a shop for profit or sale, but a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of men’s estate.
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
The cause of profit is that labor produces more than is required for its support.
It is better to profit by a horrible example than to be one.
Mikhail Bakunin, fully Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin
The state is the sum of all the negations of the individual liberty of all its members; or rather that of the sacrifices which all its members make, in renouncing one portion of their liberty to the profit of the common good.
Good | Individual | Liberty |
Noah Porter, fully Noah Porter, Jr.
No man can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon I
In revolutions there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.
Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
Will |