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- All roads lead to Johannesburg.
- Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose…
- I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
- Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
- But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
- For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
- Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear…
- There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties…
- There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle