"Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do."

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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

Margot Asquith, English Author

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"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"The right man is the one who seizes the moment."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

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"If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being."

Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist

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"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

"The right man is the one who seizes the moment."

"Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition."

"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."

"If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms."

"Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being."

"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress."

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"The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart."

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"Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else."

"There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination."

"Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not."

"If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land."

"Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness."

"Sincerity is the way to heaven."

"Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others."