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“United we stand; divided we fall.”
― Aesop

“All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
― Aesop

“Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

“Once a wolf, always a wolf.”
― Aesop, Aesop’s Fables

“I'm just tryin to be somebody I can talk to in the morning with a smile.”
― Aesop Rock, The Living Human Curiosity Sideshow

“Pain is weakness leaving the body.”
― United States Marine Corps

“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.


From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

“We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it's got to be the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.”

I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.”
― Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe