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- Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
- All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.
- Victor Cousin (1792 - 1867)
- Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.
- John Sloan (1871 - 1951)
- It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.
- Asoka (200 BC - 232 BC)
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
- Lord Acton
- The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.
- Hugh Blair
- How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
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