"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on friends and friendship
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"If you cannot improve and diversify your skills then get ready to assist your own juniors."

Majeed, Muhammad Tariq on struggle   

"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."

Bacon, Francis on wisdom
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"Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]"

Bible on wisdom   

"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Malcolm X,"

Malcom X on   

"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees."

Hugo, Victor on attitude
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"A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself."

Moore, Marianne on editing and editors
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"If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver."

Byron, Lord on tyranny   

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

Aurelius, Marcus on love
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"Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?"

Rosen, Richard D. on truth
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"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."

Biko, Steven on oppression
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"I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"I must be cruel only to be kind"

Shakespeare, William on kindness   

"Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world."

Archimedes on power
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"Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much."

Bacon, Francis on power
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"It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self."

Bacon, Francis on power
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"What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?"

Bible on power
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"The world is in balance <...>. To light a candle is to cast a shadow."

LeGuin, Ursula K. on balance
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"Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them."

Barrie, Sir James M. on strength   

"Cunning surpasses strength."

Proverb, German on strength   

"What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can."

Proverb, German on strength
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"Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back."

Unknown, Source on strength
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"Nothing is easier than to denounce the evil doer; Nothing more difficult than understanding him." "

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on understanding   

"Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime."

Luther, Martin on eternity
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"Our existence doesn't meanings, until we can’t feel the pain and sorrows of others"

Shah Ishtiaq (Real Scientist) on existence   

"A man is at his best when he is simply not like rest in all his life's test. "

Anuj Somany on best life   

"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity."

Shaw, George Bernard on indifference
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"No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband, and I know he can be trusted."

Einstein, Elsa on trust
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"Necessity knows no law except to conquer."

Syrus, Publilius on necessity   

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"Everyone knows the art of creating relations, but sustained them! is not everyone's cup of tea."

Shah Ishtiaq (Real Scientist) on relationship   

"It is only the ignorant who despise education."

Syrus, Publilius on education
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"The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing."

Syrus, Publilius on eyes
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"Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back."

Syrus, Publilius on fear   

"Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken."

Syrus, Publilius on fortune
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"“All I can do is be me. Whoever that is.”"

Dylan, Bob on personality
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"Freedom is just chaos with better lighting."

Foster, Alan Dean on freedom
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"Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.."

Rostand, Jean on fame   

"The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same."

Rostand, Jean on ideals and idealism   

"A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it."

Rostand, Jean on power   

"We are not na?ve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job."

Rostand, Jean on purity