"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

Adams, John on freedom
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"Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history."

Camus, Albert on evolution
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"Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic."

Camus, Albert on evolution   

"I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self-interest. I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened."

Castro, Fidel on evolution   

"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on evolution
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"Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs."

Diderot, Denis on evolution   

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

Aristotle on education
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"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."

Aristotle on education
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"Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons."

Aristotle on equality
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"It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions."

Aristotle on goodness
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"Either a beast or a god."

Aristotle on humankind
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"Man is by nature a political animal."

Aristotle on humankind
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"The law is reason, free from passion."

Aristotle on law and lawyers
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"Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy."

Aristotle on anger
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"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."

Aristotle on animals
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"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love."

Aristotle on love
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"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on absurdity
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"First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end."

Aristotle on goals
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"For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve."

Aristotle on achievement
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"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on genius
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"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."

Aristotle on equality
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"No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye."

Aristotle on evil
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle on excellence
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"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

Aristotle on excellence
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"Cruel is the strife of brothers."

Aristotle on family   

"Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely."

Aristotle on freedom
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"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is essentially a partnership."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on democracy
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"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."

Lewis, C. S. on pain
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"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men."

Plato on government
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"Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others."

Plato on greatness   

"We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise."

Plato on heaven   

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"Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty."

Plato on honesty   

"Man is a two-legged animal without feathers."

Plato on humankind
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"I have good hope that there is something after death."

Plato on immortality   

"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."

Plato on knowledge
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"He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him."

Plato on anger
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"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

Plato on forgiveness
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"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."

Plato on faith
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