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- There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?
- William Hart Coleridge
- Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.
- Lawrence Sterne (1713 - 1768)
- A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
- Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC)
- The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
- Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC)
- Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.
- Moralia
- Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.
- Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
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