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- The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
- David Riesman
- A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
- Bertrand Russell V. Delong
- He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.
- George Woodberry
- When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.
- Author Unknown
- Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
- Queen Elizabeth
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