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- Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.
- Apuleius (124 AD - 170 AD)
- There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.
- Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899)
- In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Let us be resolute in prosecuting our ends, and mild in our methods of so doing.
- Aquaviva
- The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
- William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)
- While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.
- Dale Carnegie
- Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
- Dorothy Thompson (1894 - 1961)
- It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
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