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Thomas Browne
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
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Andr Gide
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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Otto von Bismark
A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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George Bernard Shaw
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
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Brendan Behan
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
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Epictetus
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Rebecca West
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.
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Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Just being honest is not enough. The essential ingredient is executive integrity.
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William R. Matthews
Naturally, we cannot say much about the spiritual body, because we cannot imagine what it would be like to have a spiritual body different from that which we now inhabit but it seems to me reasonable to believe that we are weaving our spiritual bodies as we go along.
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Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825
Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
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Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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Ovid
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
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