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- Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.
- The Dhammapada
- When in doubt, tell the truth.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
- David Reisman
- Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.
- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
- What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
- Martina Horner, President of Radcliffe College
- If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door.
- Thomas Secker
- I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), quoted by Plato, 'The Death of Socrates'
- Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility;
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger:
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Henry V", Act 3 scene 1
- Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
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