Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
Refrain from doing ill; for one all-powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
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One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.
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A healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Indeed, the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.
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Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
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Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
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You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.
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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
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Your very silence shows you agree.
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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.
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Do not speak quickly; it is a sign of insanity.
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He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
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To perceive is to suffer.
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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
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Law is mind without reason.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
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In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress. Charles W.
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War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
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To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
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In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.
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We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
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You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.
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Ignorance never settles a question.
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Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
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Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.
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Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
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Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.
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The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
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Faith must have adequate evidence; else it is mere superstition.
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He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
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Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of charitableness and angry feeling.
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In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.
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Learn to labor and to wait.
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While thou live keep a good tongue in thy head.
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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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