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Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
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Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek
Do not do to others what would anger you
if done to you by others.
- Isocrates (Ancient Greek)
I am an Epicurean.
I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus
as containing everything rational in moral philosophy
which Greek and Roman leave to us.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Every citizen should be a soldier.
This was the case with the Greeks and Romans,
and must be that of every free state.
- Thomas Jefferson
One minute you're in the lunchroom at Glenwood High
and you ... blink and you're 40,
you blink again and you can see movies
at half price on a senior citizen's pass.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, or to put it more accurately,
ask not for whom the toilet flushes.
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day,
he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.
But if he spends his days as a speculator,
shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time,
he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
- Henry David Thoreau
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen
who would protect the rights and privileges of free people
and who would preserve what is
good and fruitful in our national heritage.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.
That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home,
then go out in the street
and start grinning good morning
at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A quotation is a handy thing to have about,
saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Life was meant to be lived,
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
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