14 quotes by Peter Abelard

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Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

Confessions

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Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

Popularity

3.0 · 41 votes · 142 reads

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Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Food

4.1 · 21 votes · 113 reads

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I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best - it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money - provided you can

University

3.9 · 39 votes · 120 reads

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I love being a writer, what I can't stand is the paperwork.

Writers

4.1 · 63 votes · 109 reads

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Peter Abelard

Nature
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
4.6 · 55 votes · 173 reads
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Society
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
3.3 · 9 votes · 180 reads
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Society
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
4.7 · 45 votes · 75 reads
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Various
The rich aren't like us; they pay less taxes.
3.4 · 9 votes · 169 reads
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Society
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
3.8 · 28 votes · 200 reads
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Society
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
4.5 · 39 votes · 23 reads
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Virtues
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.
4.8 · 32 votes · 187 reads
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Various
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
3.3 · 23 votes · 184 reads
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Virtues
You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?
5.0 · 24 votes · 99 reads
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