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- Why, this is very midsummer madness.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Twelfth Night, Act III, sc. 4
- Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Othello, Act II, sc. 3
- Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, and look on death itself.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act II, sc. 3
- Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Cymbeline, Act III, sc. 4
- The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Twelfth Night, Act V, sc. 1
- Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV, sc. 3
- When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he is not a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
- Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929), Conversation with Jean Martet, January 1 1929
- Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
- Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), Day of Affirmation address delivered at the University of Capetown, South Africa, June 6, 1966
- When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics, book 1, chapter 2
- But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness-each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked-each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.
- Herbert Butterfield, Christianity, Diplomacy and War
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