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- Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
- Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC)
- A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
- Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC)
- Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful.
- Phaedrus (15 BC - 50 AD)
- His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.
- Paterculus
- Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed.
- Unknown, UNESCO Constitution
- It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.
- Thomas Elliot
- Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
- It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.
- George Gissing (1857 - 1903)
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