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- I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
- Ambrose Pratt
- No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor is the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
- Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
- He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot—a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals. But coffee itself tasted to him like caffeinated stomach bile.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- Attention to our duties provides far greater rewards than beauty and wit. Self-control is what differentiates us from the beasts. Without it, we are merely animals.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), The Secret Heart of Charlotte Lucas, 2014
- War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
- Cardinal Richelieu
- In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards.
- Gary Lee Phillips
- Beware the man of one book.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274)
- A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.
- William of Baskerville, The Name of the Rose
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