Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

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To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

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He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases t grow becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end.

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Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.

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Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

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In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

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The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

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There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.

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