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- What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- Compassion is the basis of all morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice.
- Magna Carta
- Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
- Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD)
- I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC)
- The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
- I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.
- Sir Arthur Helps
- In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.
- Henry Clay (1777 - 1852)
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