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- To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam)
- Anonymous
- Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
- Moliere (1622 - 1673)
- Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.
- Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
- Dare to be wise.
(Sapere Aude) - Anonymous
- Why dost thou gaze upon the sky?
O that I were yon spangled sphere! Then every star should be an eye, To wander o'er thy beauties here. - Sir Thomas More (1478 - 1535)
- Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
- Jean Baptiste Rousseau
- Taxation without representation is tyranny.
- James Otis (1725 - 1783)
- History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
- James A. Forude
- Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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