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- They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
- Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)
- In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
- Meister Eckhart
- Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
- Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)
- The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
- Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC)
- We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.
- Henry Brougham (1778 - 1868)
- Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
- Chinese Proverb
- If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.
- Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC)
- Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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