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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.


Saint Augustine

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
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GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
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GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
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The one w...
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SAM HARRIS Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
ERNEST HOLMES Freedom of mind is the real freedom.
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B.R. AMBEDKAR Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
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WALTER BAGEHOT This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
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HAILE GEBRSELASSIE The highest form of slavery is to make the slave think that he is free.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becom...
GIACOMO CASANOVA As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past.
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JAMES DYSON My life is a struggle.
VOLTAIRE Life is a lot like skateboarding.
LIL WAYNE All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.
MORIHEI UESHIBA For me, life is a bowl of cherries.
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SIR WILLIAM DRUMMOND (2) He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
SIR WILLIAM DRUMMOND He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
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SUI HE I like to find old things
and I picked up that arrowhead
in tears, that broken point
...
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HE WEIFANG I unequivocally state the wish that the Communist Party should become two parties.
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GERMANY KENT All of life is a foreign country.
JACK KEROUAC A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
MADAME DE STAEL To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
MARCUS AURELIUS For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Life is a predicament which precedes death.
HENRY JAMES Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
JACK KEROUAC Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome.
DANNY MEYER Life is a soccer field, don't you think?
SHAKIRA What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting.
CAROLYN SEE Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.
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WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS Be original, be yourself, be you.
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SAADI He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
SA'DI Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
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ERIK PEVERNAGIE He is the slave of the Lord's slaves.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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and I out of myself,
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SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE From many to make one. [Lat., Ex pluribus unum facere.]
SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE The verdict of the world is conclusive. [Lat., Securus judicat orbis terrarum.]
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SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE A child of those tears. [Lat., Filius istarum lacrymarum.]
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SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the ot...
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SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scatt...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
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SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The greatest evil is physical pain.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.
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