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- All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome,…
- That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of…
- Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his…
- It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in…
- True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We…
- Did we believe a final Reckoning and Judgment; or did we think enough of what we do believe, we would allow more Love in Religion…
- The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.
- Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature... no one…
- Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and…
- If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful…
- Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
- A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
- In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
- We meet on the broad pathway of good faith and good will; no advantage shall be taken on either side, but all shall be openness…
- Love is indeed Heaven upon Earth; since Heaven above would not be Heaven without it: For where there is not Love; there is Fear: But…
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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