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It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful.: Phaedrus (15 BC - 50 AD)
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.: Thomas Elliot
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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.: Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922)
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To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
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Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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