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- Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
- Marie Henri Beyle (1783 - 1842)
- A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent.
- William Blake (1757 - 1827)
- If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
- Xenophon (434 BC - 355 BC)
- In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)
- In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.
- Tiberius (42 BC - 37 AD)
- O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.
- Saadi (1184 - 1291)
- The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
- Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD)
- Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
- Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD)
- In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
- Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD)
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