In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles. Discourses
A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor. Justice in some mysterious way makes up for violence. Beware of Pity
"He who learns but does not think is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger." The Analects of Confucius
Give a man health and a course to steer; and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not. Captain Brassbound's Conversion
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