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- May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.
- Anonymous
- By courage I repel adversity.
(Adversa Virtute Repello) - Anonymous
- Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.
- Terence (185 BC - 159 BC)
- That is true wisdom, to know how to alter one's mind when occasion demands it.
- Terence (185 BC - 159 BC)
- Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation.
- James Clarke (1854 - 1916)
- It is not growing like a tree
in bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. - Benjamin Johnson
- Nay, tempt me not to love again:
There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again. - Sir Thomas More (1478 - 1535)
- Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.
- Jean de la Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
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