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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (c. 1809-1894)
“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
  • From a Valedictory Address by Oliver Wendell Holmes, delivered to the graduating class of the Bellevue Hospital College on March 2, 1871.

 

Mencius

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Mencius (c. 372-289 BCE)
“Human nature is good just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good; there is no water that does not flow downwards.”
  • From The Mencius (Book VI, Part A, section 2) by Mencius, translated by D. C. Lau (Penguin Classics, 2003).

Gregory of Nazianzus

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Gregory of Nazianzus (c. 329-390)
“A man’s character is the most persuasive thing of all.”
  • From Gregory of Nazianzus’ Three Poems, translated by Denis Molaise Meechan (Catholic University of America Press, 1987).

Dionysus (by Euripides)

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Euripides (c. 484-406 BCE)
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
  • From The Bacchae (approximately line 480), by the poet Euripides. Translated by William Arrowsmith (University of Chicago Press, 1959).

 

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus (c. 1913-1960)
“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.”
  • From The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, translated by Justin O’Brien (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House/Penguin, 1955,1983).

 

Mencius

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Mencius (c. 372-289 BCE)
“Benevolence overcomes cruelty just as water overcomes fire.”
  • From The Mencius (Book VI, Part A, section 18) by Mencius, translated by D. C. Lau (Penguin Classics, 2003).

 

Odin (from Hamaval)

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Odin (from Hávamál)

“Cattle die,
kin die
self dies too;
a good name,
if you get one,
goes on forever”

  • This quote comes from stanza 76 of Hávamál (Sayings of the High One), an old poem which was preserved in the 13th-century Poetic Edda which was produced anonymously in Iceland. The translation is by David A. H. Evans (Viking Society for Northern Research, 1986).

Erasmus

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Erasmus (c. 1466-1536)
“There are no vices that are more dangerous than those that have the veneer of virtue.”
  • “Inner Faith Is Better Than Mere Ritual” from The Handbook of the Militant Christian, reprinted in The Western World: Age of the Protestant Reformation Primary Readings, edited by Mark Kishlansky Et al. Boston: Pearson, 2010.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Sir Winston Churchill (c. 1874-1965)

“Never till now were great communities afforded such ample means of measuring their approaching agony. Never have they seemed less capable of taking effective measure to prevent it.”

  • From Winston Churchill’s “Stop it now!” (1936), included in Winston S. Churchill Step By Step: Political Writings 1936-1939 (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015).

St. Augustine

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“Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet.”
  • From St. Augustine’s Confessions (Book 8, chapter 7, section 17), in Christianity in Late Antiquity, edited by Bart D. Ehrman and Andrew S. Jacobs. New York, Oxford University Press, 2004.

 

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