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Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men. -- Andre Weil
Rigour and purity in assembling words, however simple the result, create a vacuum. -- Theodor Adorno
If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what Locks or Bars would be sufficient to preserve the Honour of our Wives and Daughters? -- Bernard de Mandeville
It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence. -- Tom Stoppard
A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game. -- Charles Lamb
I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly. -- John Huston
If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter. -- Rene Thom
In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision. -- Lionel Messi
Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade. -- George Steiner
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind. -- Edward Gibbon
A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day. -- Rose Macaulay
The rigour of science requires that we distinguish well the undraped figure of Nature itself from the gay-coloured vesture with which we clothe her at our pleasure. -- Heinrich Hertz
As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have recourse to the reasons drawn from the generality of algebra. -- Augustin-Louis Cauchy
I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour. -- Zoe Wanamaker
Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? -- Charlotte Bronte
A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on nothing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals. -- T. S. Eliot
Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide, So am I driven by breath of her renown Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive Where I may have fruition of her love. -- William Shakespeare
If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison. -- Bruce Chatwin
Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that the rigorous method is at the same time the simpler and the more easily comprehended. The very effort for rigor forces us to find out simpler methods of proof. -- David Hilbert
In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour. But, at night, under the full moon, they dream, they float among the stars and wonder at the miracle of the heavens. They are inspired. Without dreams there is no art, no mathematics, no life. -- Michael Atiyah
As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with all these sub-Tolkien rip-offs because they all end up doing the same old things and there's no rigour to it. -- Jonathan Stroud
In a government framed for durable liberty, not less regard must be paid to giving the magistrate a proper degree of authority, to make and execute the laws with rigour, than to guarding against encroachments upon the rights of the community. As too much power leads to despotism, too little leads to anarchy, and both eventually to the ruin of the people. -- Alexander Hamilton
The cuisine, it is all about putting generosity before rigour and pleasure before lucidity. -- Pierre Gagnaire
Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour. -- Paul Morley
Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it. -- Maurice Druon
One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands. -- Francis Galton
As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have recourse to the reasons drawn from the generality of algebra." -- Augustin Louis Cauchy

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