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- Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
- Quida
- In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
- Meister Eckhart
- A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
- Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
- Hugo De Groot (1583 - 1645)
- By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.
- Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
- The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity.
- Stuart Seaton
- You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references sir.
- Martin Routh
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