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Sir Winston Churchill

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Sir Winston Churchill
“The scales of Justice are vain without her sword. Peace must have her constables.”
  • From Winston Churchill’s “How to Stop War” (June 12, 1936), reprinted in Winston S. Churchill Step By Step: Political Writings 1936-1939 (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015).

 

Saint Augustine of Hippo

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Saint Augustine of Hippo (c. 354-430)

“Why are you relying on yourself, only to find yourself unreliable?”

  • From St. Augustine’s Confessions (Book 8, chapter 11, section 27), in Christianity in Late Antiquity, edited by Bart D. Ehrman and Andrew S. Jacobs. New York, Oxford University Press, 2004.

 

Plato

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Plato ( c. 427-347 BCE)
“But the term ‘believers’ is inappropriate for those who are devoted to everything that is real: they should be called philosophers, shouldn’t they? Absolutely.”
  • From Republic (480a) by Plato, translated by Robin Waterfield (Oxford World’s Classics, 2008).

 

Buddha

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The Buddha (c. 6th-5th century BCE)
“Childish, unthinking people
go through life as enemies to themselves,
committing detrimental actions
that bear bitter fruit.”
  • From The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 5), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

 

Odin

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Odin (from Havamal)

“Cut wood in a wind,
row boats in a breeze,
save sex for the darkness,
the eyes of day are everywhere;
sail a ship for its swiftness,
use a shield for shelter,
use a sword for severing
and a cutie for kissing.”
  • This quote comes from stanza 82 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).
 

 

Saint Teresa of Avila

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Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
“I believe that in every little thing created by God there is more than we realize, even in so small a thing as a tiny ant.”
  • From Interior Castle (Fourth Mansions, chapter II) by St. Teresa of Avila, translated by E. Allison Peers (Dover Publications, 2007).

 

Chuang Tzu

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Chuang Tzu (c. 4th Century BCE)

“If we regard a thing as useful because there is a certain usefulness to it, then among all the ten thousand things there are none that are not useful.”

  • From Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings (section 17), translated by Burton Watson. (Columbia University Press, 1996).

Al-Ghazali

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Al-Ghazali (c. 1058-1111)

“One does not point to the light of the sun but, rather, to the sun. In the obvious sense of this example, everything in existence is related to God just as light is related to the sun.”

  • From The Niche of Lights (chapter 1) by Al Ghazālī, translated by David Buchman. Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1998.

 

Confucius

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Confucius (c. 551-479 BCE)
“Chi Wen Tzu used to think thrice before acting. The Master hearing of it said, Twice is quite enough.”
  • The Analects of Confucius (Book V, section 19) translated by Arthur Waley (Vintage Books, 1989).

 

John Calvin

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John Calvin (1509-1564)
“I confess, indeed, that I am not poor; for I desire nothing more than what I have.”
  • From John Calvin’s preface to his Commentary on Pslams (Originally published c. 1557), translated by J. Dillenberger (c. 1971), and reprinted in A Reformation Reader: Primary Texts with Introduction, edited by Denis R. Janz (Fortress Press, 2008).

 

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