I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.

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Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.

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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

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To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.

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Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you. ― Marcus Aurelius

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Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

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The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

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If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.

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The more a man knows, the less he talks. - Voltaire

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The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure ― Aristotle

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