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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that…
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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
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The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
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The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
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For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
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Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in…
— Karl Ernst von Baer
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We who are living in the west today are fortunate. Freedom has been bequeathed to us. We have not had to carve…
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To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human.…
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We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities...
— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not…
— Jack Kornfield
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Working hard for our own sake No matter how much we feel tired its better for the future But dont forget to…
— Marianette Carbito
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Humans, let it be men and women are equal in terms of loyalty, but we get carried away too quickly for our…
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