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"Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge."
"If the course of human affairs be considered, it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to guard."
"With every decisions we make, the last question we ask is what does the consumer think of this."
"No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose."
"Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him."
"No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? ... It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have."
"Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence."
"Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age."
"The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish."
"A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy."
"As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world."
"It doesn't always have a shape,Almost never does it have a name,It maybe has a pitchfork, maybe has a tail,But evil is alive and well."
"Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last forever."
"It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless."
"In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will."
"There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle."
"If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally."
"Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion."
"The universe does not work by our rules"
"Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive."
