To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - … - George Eliot

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The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.

George Eliot

To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?

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Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

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People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

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All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.

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The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.

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Lloyd Alexander

This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.

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Swami Vivekananda

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Friedrich Nietzsche

For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone I meet is in some way my superior.

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