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- The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
- Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC)
- To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.
- Bias
- The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
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