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- Aggression unchallenged is aggression unleashed.
- Phaedrus (15 BC - 50 AD)
- It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful.
- Phaedrus (15 BC - 50 AD)
- Freedom is a clear conscience.
- Periander
- What power has law where only money rules.
- Gaius Petronius (~66 AD)
- His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.
- Paterculus
- Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- 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)
- 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)
- Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed.
- Unknown, UNESCO Constitution
- 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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