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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.


Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
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JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The gospel according to Jean Jacques.
THOMAS CARLYLE However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacqu...
SIMON MAINWARING I have always been interested in this THOMAS A. EDISON The spectacle of nature, by growing quite familiar to him, becomes at last equally indifferent. It ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, conf...
BARUCH SPINOZA War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves...
ROSANNE CASH Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, conf...
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, conf...
BARUCH SPINOZA Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, co...
BARUCH SPINOZA Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, conf...
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LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN War is no solution to peace.
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BLAISE PASCAL 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.
ABIGAIL DISNEY It is a lie.
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E. LOCKHART Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. W...
PETER YARROW War has its necessities...and I have always understood that. Always known the cost. But, this day, b...
STEVEN ERIKSON Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY We have made suitable tactical and strategic realignments and they (the Naval fleet) are in a very h...
SUSHIL KUMAR Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
WILLIAM JOHN BENNETT Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
WILLIAM BENNETT That’s not fair!

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DAN BRUSH How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
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EMILE JOBITY As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through t...
DREW GILPIN FAUST That's a first. The Guard can't claim that (level of combat) for World War II or World War I ? the o...
LES MELNYK Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
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ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
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ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
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in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN Live with a mission; act with passion.
DEBASISH MRIDHA To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w...
ALBERT CAMUS And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s...
ALBERT CAMUS And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ...
ALBERT CAMUS You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ...
ALBERT CAMUS The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t...
ALBERT CAMUS …Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o...
ALBERT CAMUS For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every...
ALBERT CAMUS In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis...
ALBERT CAMUS Şi, vorbind mai general, oricare ţi-ar fi linia în viaţă, dacă constaţi că alţii nu-ţi pre...
BERTRAND RUSSELL, ÎN CăUTAREA FERICIRII Almighty God teach you my dear brother...more wit and knowledge than to be taken in by a good for no...
CECIL WOODHAM-SMITH That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself.
KAREN MARIE MONING Seasoning one’s claims with self-irony and modesty, cultivating a tolerance for moral ambiguity, p...
JANE BENNETT Greet Sunrise.Salute Sunset.Embrace life your own unique journey has begun
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MIKE BOLTON Sadly, we give little thought or consideration to the messages that we entertain.
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ASA DON BROWN Your spiritual mind is greater than your physical mind.
ASA DON BROWN I, too, have made many mistakes, but one valuable lesson that I have learned is that we cannot allow...
ASA DON BROWN Our human quest is to survive; our spiritual quest is to unite.
ASA DON BROWN Life is a combination of our positive and negative choices.
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"I'm not human," he sai...
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J.R. RIM Dwelling within the state of being broke should not tamper with your deepest decisions, for regardle...
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LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE We've chosen to live with war. But it is unnecessary.
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I am not commanding you, but I ...
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JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Truth is no road to fortune
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who h...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather ser...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Our greatest evil flows from ourselves
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during electi...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specif...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU God made me and broke the mold.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the ric...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be h...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I l...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be gi...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve en...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and ...
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