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- All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.
- Victor Cousin (1792 - 1867)
- There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.
- John Sloan (1871 - 1951)
- Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.
- Asoka (200 BC - 232 BC)
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
- Lord Acton
- The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
- Sir Richard Steele
- A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper
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