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Religious literature

Even women and children and those with no aptitude for speculation can attain to a complete religion, for all men are on an equal footing as far as knowledge derived from the senses is concerned. Praised be God who in his wisdom ordered things thus.

933

★ 1.1

Speech · Commencement address

Education is... A two-edged sword that can be used either for the progress of mankind or for its destruction.

Haile Selassie I

1963

★ 1.1

Wisdom literature

One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.

The Maxims of Ptahhotep · 2375 BC

★ 1.2

Man is a child of the customs and the things he has become used to. He is not the product of his natural disposition and temperment. The conditions to which he has become accustomed, until they have become for him a quality of character and matters of habit and custom, have replaced his natural disposition.

1377

★ 1.2

Wisdom literature

Be cheerful while you are alive.

The Maxims of Ptahhotep · 2375 BC

★ 1.3

Philosophical literature

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

Enneads · 270

★ 1.3

Interview · TV program

You will never be free until we are free.

1999

★ 1.3

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Fernando Pessoa

1935

★ 1.9

Novel · Philosophical literature

We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all costs, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.

The Fall · 1956

★ 1.9

The liberal must understand that the days of the Noble Savage are gone; that the blacks do not need a go-between in this struggle for their own emancipation. No true liberal should feel any resentment at the growth of black consciousness. Rather, all true liberals should realize that the place for their fight for justice is within their white society.

1970

★ 1.9

Exile is predicated on the existence of, love for, and a real bond with one's native place; the universal truth of exile is not that one has lost that love or home, but that inherent in each is an unexpected, unwelcome loss. Regard experiences then as if they were to disappear.

1993

★ 1.9

Art allows you to imbue the truth with a sort of magic, so it can infiltrate the psyches of more people, including those who don't believe the same things as you.

2014

★ 1.9

Wisdom literature

Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned... Good speech is more hidden than malachite, yet it is found in the possession of women slaves at the millstones.

The Maxims of Ptahhotep · 2375 BC

★ 1.9

Wisdom literature

Do not set your heart on wealth… Do not strain to seek increase, What you have, let it suffice you. If riches come by theft, They will not stay the night with you…. They made themselves wings like geese, And flew away to the sky.

1075 BC

★ 1.9

Religious literature

The Lord says in the gospel; "I am the Truth." He does not say "I am custom." Therefore, when the truth is made manifest, custom must give way to truth.

Libosus of Vaga

Augustine of Hippo, On Baptism, Against the Donatists · 400

★ 1.9

Personal journal

Politics, and the fate of mankind, are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.

1962

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

1972

★ 1.9

Speech · Commencement address

The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you they are not big enough.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

2011

★ 1.9

The Dead Sea in the Middle East receives freshwater, but it has no outlet, so it doesn't pass the water out. It receives beautiful water from the rivers, and the water goes dank. I mean, it just goes bad. And that's why it is the Dead Sea. It receives and does not give. In the end, generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.

2016

★ 1.9

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

The Eunuch · 161 BC

★ 2.0

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