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“For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.”
On The Laws • Marcus Tullius Cicero“What could be more serious than the love of man for woman, what more commanding, more impressive, bearing in its bosom the seeds of death; at the same time these lovers, these people entering into illusion glittering eyed, must be danced round with mockery, decorated with garlands.”
To the Lighthouse • Virginia Woolf““An honorable man does not throw a stone into the well where he quenches his thirst!””
Samarkand • Amin Maalouf“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“The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.”
Fragments • Heraclitus