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- The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.
- Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899)
- If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.
- Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899)
- In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
- William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)
- Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
- Dorothy Thompson (1894 - 1961)
- It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
- The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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