Cyrus the Great
King
"We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner."
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Ought
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Abraham Lincoln
Political Leader
"Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought"
Roger Williams
Theologian, Minister
"Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained."
Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides."
Pythagoras
Philosopher, Mathematician
"Do not even think of doing what ought not to be done."
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"There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy."
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"A man ought to do what he thinks is right"
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"I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing."
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"Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be."
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"Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped."
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"We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it."
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"The same people that tell me what I ought to have is the same people asking for an autograph."
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"One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared."
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"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered."
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"They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox."
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"Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to."
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"A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener."
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"I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be."
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"You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it."
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"That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble."
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"All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established."
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"God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him."
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"It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it."
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"The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned."
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"We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies."
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