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- In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Let us be resolute in prosecuting our ends, and mild in our methods of so doing.
- Aquaviva
- When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.
- Dale Carnegie
- Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
- Dorothy Thompson (1894 - 1961)
- It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
- What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- US Declaration of Independence
- So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.
- J. B. S. Haldane (1892 - 1964)
- To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.
- Anonymous, Proverb
- If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)
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