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trifles
«To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.»
«Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.»
«The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.»
«Revolutions are not about trifles, but they spring from trifles»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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«The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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indicated, indicates, insensibility, inversion, sensibilities, sensibility, trifled, trifles
«Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.»
«Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life»
«Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.»