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Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
“So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for every thing one has a mind to do.”
  • From The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, edited by Kenneth Silverman (Penguin Classics, 1986).

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius (121-180 CE)
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
  • From Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations (7.8)

 

Sir Thomas More

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Sir Thomas More (c. 1478-1535)
“To my mind, no amount of property is equivalent to a human life.”
  • From “Humanistic Solutions to Social Problems” from Thomas More’s Utopia, reprinted in The Western World: Age of the Protestant Reformation Primary Readings, edited by Mark Kishlansky Et al. Boston: Pearson, 2010.

 

George Bernard Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw (c. 1856-1950)
“You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?'”

 

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).

 

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