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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
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For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character.
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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it
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Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
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From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all.
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Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.
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Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.
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Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
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Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.
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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.
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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
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Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
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Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew -
St. Francis de Sales
Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622) -
Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
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