"A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on assassination
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"We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on people
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"Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand."

Simpson, Homer on understanding
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"Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable."

Bierce, Ambrose on religion
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"It is only the ignorant who despise education."

Syrus, Publilius on education
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"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."

Patton, George S. on courage
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"A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves."

Weil, Simone on justice
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"To create something you must be something."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on creativity
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"One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live."

Ruskin, John on death
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"It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly."

Wilde, Oscar on beauty
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"Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life."

Pythagoras on friends and friendship
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"Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on eternity
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"When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family."

Maciver, Robert M. on women
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"Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?"

Berger, John on bores and boredom
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"Some remedies are worse than the disease."

Syrus, Publilius on medicine   

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adventure
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"Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement."

Jampolsky, Gerald G. on love
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"If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane."

Buffett, Jimmy on laughter
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"Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on judgment and judges
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"Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on jealousy
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"Valor is common but great souls are rare."

Saurin, Bernard Joseph on valor   

"All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice."

Maistre, Joseph De on pain   

"The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated."

Cicero, Marcus T. on pain
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"There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer."

Cicero, Marcus T. on age and aging   

"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."

Cicero, Marcus T. on envy
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"Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty."

Cicero, Marcus T. on fear   

"Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat."

Cicero, Marcus T. on food and eating
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"It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own."

Cicero, Marcus T. on fools and foolishness
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"Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends."

Cicero, Marcus T. on friends and friendship
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"Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion."

Browne, Sir Thomas on passion
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"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."

Seneca on death
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"After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are: the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live."

Lombardi, Vince on dedication
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"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."

Lombardi, Vince on commitment
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"It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it."

Byron, Lord on life
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"Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses."

Henderson, Bruce on business
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"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on belief
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"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."

Hubbard, Elbert on understanding
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"The secret of success is constancy of purpose. "

Disraeli, Benjamin on uncategorised
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"By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible."

Niccolini, Giovanni on expectation   

"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear."

Bible on love
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