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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual…
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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards…
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This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food,…
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To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,…
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Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to…
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When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And…
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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the…
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
— Nathaniel Branden
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A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you…
— Vincent de Paul
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We are not defined by our things. It´s not the clothes that we wear, the cars that we drive, the art we…
— Alyson Noel
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When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
— Denis Diderot
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... the ecological problem of our times demands a radical reevaluation of how we see the entire world; it demands a different…
— Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
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It is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strengths. To accept that…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy…
— Charis Wilson
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