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- He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
- Plotinus (205 AD - 270 AD)
- There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.
- John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
- So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters... - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, act 1 scene 5
- Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
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