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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian
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"Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them."

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Baruch Spinoza Philosopher, Rationalist
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"How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare."

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Confucius Philosopher
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"To be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North Star. As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it."

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Aristotle Philosopher
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"It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking."

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