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- He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
- Philip Massinger, The Bondman, 1624
- No man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965), On Senator Joseph McCarthy, See It Now, March 7, 1954
- If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
- Michael Harrington, The Other America, 1962
- If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
- Montesquieq
- Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Experience informs us that the first defense of weak minds is to recriminate.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
- It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
- We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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