The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour. - Livy

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Come to close?No one wants to come to close. If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it. Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like. Turn a blind eye. Maybe it will go away.

Livy

The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.

Courage, Honorable, Rely, Safest, Wells

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There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

Enmities, Enmity, Friendships, Immortal, Old, Should

He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.

Adverse, Adversity, Elated, Favorable, Men, Prosperity

Greater is our terror of the unknown.

Greater, Terror, Unknown

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.

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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.

Hurt, Hurts, Loss, Money, Worse

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Iris Johansen

Come to close?No one wants to come to close. If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it. Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like. Turn a blind eye. Maybe it will go away.

Come, Eye, Going Away, Know, Like, Why Not

e. e. cummings

Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide;and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself whoever himself may be is immortal;and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality.

Artist, Atomic, Committed, Country, Good, Suicide

John Piper

The infinite reservoir of future grace is flowing back through the present into the ever-growing pool of past grace. The inexhaustible reservoir is invisible except through the promises. But the ever-enlarging pool of past grace is visible; and God means for the certainty and beauty and depth to strengthen our faith in future grace.

Beauty, Certainty, Grace, Infinite, Mean, Past

Max Horkheimer

Pragmatism. . . reflects with almost disarming candor the spirit of the prevailing business culture, the very same attitude of 'being practical' as counter to which philosophical meditation as such was conceived.

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Joschka Fischer

You must see the persons who are in charge-persons you can punish or vote for.

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