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- Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- Eloquence is in the assembly, not merely in the speaker.
- William Pitt
- Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Wherever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
- Thomas Haliburton
- Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
- Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
- The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation.
- Edward Chapin
- All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
- Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC)
- True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
- Victor Cousin (1792 - 1867)
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