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- Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- The friendship that can cease has never been real.
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter
- A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts.
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter
- Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), On the Epistle to the Ephesians
- Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.
- The Talmud, Mishna. Sanhedrin
- He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. - Ali ibn-Abi-Talib (602 AD - 661 AD), A Hundred Sayings
- You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
- Saint Bernard (1090 - 1153), Epistle
- Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274), Two Precepts of Charity
- There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), The Prince
- Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy
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