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- He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased'; but he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome.'
- Julian of Norwich (1342 - 1416), Revelations of Divine Love
- Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519), The Notebooks
- When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), The Prince
- There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), The Prince
- There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), The Prince
- Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy
- They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
- Sir Thomas More (1478 - 1535), Utopia
- While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
- Lenin (1870 - 1924), "State and Revolution", 1919
- The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
- Stanley Kubrick (1928 - ), in Guardian, June 5, 1963
- The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Strength to Love, 1963
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