"The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest."

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"The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest."

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

George Eliot, British Author

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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it."

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"Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame."

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"Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit."

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"He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace."

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"At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late."

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"So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech."

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"Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds."

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

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"The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it."

"Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame."

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"He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace."

"At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late."

"So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech."

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"A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother."

"Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death."

"Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth."