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- It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics.
- Denise Caruso, (digital commerce columnist, New York Times)
- Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
- You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
- Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.
- Flavius Josephus (37 AD - 100 AD), Life
- A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
- Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD), Epigrams
- Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), Lives
- When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses
- You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
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