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“The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about a matter is usually not our own, but only the customary one, appropriate to our caste, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim near the surface.”
Human, All Too Human • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.”
Letter to Polish Journalist • Leo Tolstoy“Her reverence for the divine, her generosity, her inability not only to do wrong but even to conceive of doing it. And the simple way she lived—not in the least like the rich. ”
Book I • Marcus Aurelius“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.”
Mark Twain's Notebook • Mark Twain““Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.””
Republic • Plato