I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
ALFRED NOBEL
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
More Alfred Nobel Quotes
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I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
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The truthful man is usually a liar.
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Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.
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Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
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It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.
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Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.
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I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.
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Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
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Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
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Nature is man’s teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.
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