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Thomas Paine
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
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Confucius, The Confucian Analects
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
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Seneca
Time heals what reason cannot.
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Adam Smith
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.
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Mark Twain
A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
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Kara Vichko
These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil.
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Oscar Wilde
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
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Cesare Pavese
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
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John Tillotson
A good word is an easy obligation but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.
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Donald H. Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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Niccolo Machiavelli
He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.
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Albert Einstein
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
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