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- It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful.
- Phaedrus (15 BC - 50 AD)
- What power has law where only money rules.
- Gaius Petronius (~66 AD)
- Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Their understanding
Begins to swell and the approaching tide
Will shortly fill the reasonable shores
That now lie foul and muddy. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed.
- Unknown, UNESCO Constitution
- It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.
- Thomas Elliot
- Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
- Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.
- Felix Frankfurter (1882 - 1965)
- He who spares the wicked injures the good.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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