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- To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.
- Peter de Gaston Levis
- It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence.
- Marquis de Vauvenargues
- Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
- Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974)
- If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
- Xenophon (434 BC - 355 BC)
- The reason we have two ears and only one mouth, is that we may hear more and speak less.
- Zeno (335 BC - 264 BC)
- Great is truth, and all powerful.
- Vulgate
- In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)
- Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.
- Theocritus of Chios (310 BC - 250 BC)
- In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.
- Tiberius (42 BC - 37 AD)
- The past is certain, the future obscure.
- Thales (635 BC - 543 BC)
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