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- Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword.
(Hinc Gham Sit Calmus Saevior Ense Patet) - Robert Burton (1577 - 1640)
- A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
- Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC)
- Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
- Sir Arthur Helps
- Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
- The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.
- Victor Cousin (1792 - 1867)
- Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.
- Asoka (200 BC - 232 BC)
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