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- The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
- Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD)
- Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
- Karl Barth (1886 - 1968)
- With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
- William Lloyd Garrison (1805 - 1879)
- To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.
- Henry Beston
- The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
- Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
- Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
- Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
- Madam Guizot
- O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)
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