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- I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), quoted by Plato, 'The Death of Socrates'
- Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
- Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility;
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger:
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Henry V", Act 3 scene 1
- The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
- Ulysses S. Grant (1822 - 1885)
- Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
- Edward Young (1683 - 1765)
- Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.
- Julius Rosenwald (1862 - 1932)
- If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
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