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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Quote by Paul Gauguin about philosophy, art, magic

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about sadness, friendship, joy, happiness

The inevitable result was the balance of power, the arms race, the dividing up of the world into rival alliances, and ultimately, war.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about war, power, world

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.

Quote by Walter Pater about gifts, attitude, sleep, sun, moment, day

Women are passionate about Mathematics. They are dividing their age in two, doubling the price of clothes and always add five years to age of best friend.

Quote by Marcel Achard about woman, mathematics, age, olderness, clothes

If yesterday we were dividing the time into days and years, today, we divide it into minutes and hours, in order to leave for tomorrow only the seconds.

Quote by Marius Torok about time, day, order