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Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis
Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.
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Maya Angelou
If someone tells you who they are, believe them.
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Nikita Khrushchev, remark at the Polish embasy in Moscow, Nov. 18, 1956
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
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Victor Hugo
He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Alexander Graham Bell
When one door closes another door opens but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
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Oscar Wilde
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
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Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened.
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Seami Motokiyo
Life is a lying dream, he only wake Who casts the World aside.
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Mary Howitt
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
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Logan Pearsall Smith
I cannot forgive my friends for dying I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
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Milan Kundera
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
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