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    Edmund Burke
    “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: evil
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.”
    ― Augustine
    tags: bible, catholic, catholic-author, catholicism, truth
    584 likes

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    Tacitus
    “The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
    ― Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome
    tags: commonwealth, corruption, government, law
    414 likes

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    Augustine of Hippo
    “God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.”
    ― St. Augustine of Hippo
    tags: procrastination
    369 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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    Plato
    “Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
    ― Plato
    tags: laws, people
    902 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: integrity, morality
    2986 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: doing-right, goodness, integrity
    1326 likes

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    Tacitus
    “It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.”
    ― Tacitus, The Histories
    tags: free-thought, freedom-of-speech
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: comparison, gossip, inspirational, integrity
    620 likes

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    Martin Luther
    “True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.”
    ― Martin Luther
    tags: humility
    324 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: philosophy, spiritual
    418 likes

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    Edmund Burke
    “Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: doomed-to-repeat-it, history, learning, school
    1016 likes

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    John Milton
    “I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.”
    ― John Milton
    tags: hinesty, integrity, patience, suffering, wisdom
    374 likes

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    Seneca
    “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: inspirational
    1617 likes

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    Seneca
    “He who is brave is free”
    ― Seneca
    tags: bravery, courage, freedom, gallantry
    504 likes

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    Seneca
    “It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ”
    ― Seneca
    732 likes

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    Socrates
    “The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
    ― Socrates
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    Seneca
    “Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”
    ― Seneca
    289 likes

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    Socrates
    “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: avarice, contentment, gluttony, greed
    1346 likes

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    Seneca
    “A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: swords, weapons
    201 likes

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    Socrates
    “Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: gossip
    2082 likes

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    Plato
    “When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.”
    ― Plato
    491 likes

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  • #26
    Seneca
    “We learn not in the school, but in life.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    173 likes

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    Blaise Pascal
    “Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
    tags: falsehood, truth
    292 likes

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    Seneca
    “He who spares the wicked injures the good.”
    ― Seneca
    138 likes

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    Seneca
    “It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”
    ― Seneca
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    Aesop
    “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
    ― Aesop
    tags: compassion, inspirational, kindness
    1076 likes



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