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	·		A bad law is no law - Lex malla, lex nulla. Thomas Aquinas.
	·		A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy. Pythagoras.
	·		A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. Henry Ford.
	·		A dictator reaches the top via a mountain of skulls. Khalifa Ben Sriti, former President FC Al Ahli Benghazi (speaking on Khadafi).
	·		A dirty mind is a joy forever. Saying.
	·		A fool can be identified by two things: he talks a lot about things useless to him, and says what he is not asked. Plato.
	·		A good decision is based on knowledge not on numbers. Plato.
	·		A leader is a dealer in hope. Napoleon Bonaparte.
	·		All art is an imitation of nature. Seneca.
	·		All fortune is the cause of misfortune. Ashoka.
	·		All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil. Ovid.
	·		Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. Margaret Mead.
	·		A man is known by the company he keeps. Saying.
	·		A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child. Pythagoras.
	·		A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. Albert Einstein.
	·		A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. George Moore.
	·		A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. Seneca.
	·		Anger is a brief insanity - Ira furor brevis est. Horace.
	·		An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they have that have the least wit are the greatest babblers. Plato.
	·		A person who is captured by his passions cannot be free. Pythagoras.
	·		Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance. Pythagoras.
	·		Art is a lie that tells the truth. Pablo Picasso.
	·		As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Albert Einstein.
	·		As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom. Pythagoras.
	·		A wage is a shortterm solution to a long-term problem. Robert Kiyosaki.
	·		As you sow, so shall you reap - Ut sementem feceris, ita metes. Cicero.
	·		Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you. Epictetus.
	·		A tiger doesn't lose sleep over the opinion of sheep. Shahir Zag.

	·		Bad people live to eat and drink. Virtuous people eat and drink to live. Plato.
	·		Be equally indifferent to blame and to praise. Pythagoras.
	·		Behave toward everyone as if receiving a great guest. Confusius.
	·		Being honest might not get you a lot of friends, but it will always get you the right ones. John Lennon.
	·		Be like the flower that gives fragrance even to the hand that crushes it. Ali Ibn Abi Talib.
	·		Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the gods. Seneca.
	·		Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received. Seneca.
	·		The best family is when the wilfe is blind and the husband deaf. Plato.
	·		Best men are moulded out of faults. Shakespeare.

	·		Charity begins at home (I am closest to myself) - Proximus sum egomet mihi. Terentius.
	·		Concern should drive us into action and not into depression. Pythagoras.
	·		Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty. Socrates.
	·		Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee. Epictetus.
	·		Christians are made, not born. Tertullian, Apologeticus pro Christianis.
	·		Christian meekness is not weakness. Dr. David Goetsch.
	·		Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself. Epictetus.
	·		Courage is knowing what to fear. Plato.
	·		Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth. Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes.

Death is terrible only if we fear it. Epictetus.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour does the body. Seneca.

Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together. Ovid.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not, remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Epicurus.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own. Plato.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson.

Don't judge your greatness by your shadow at sunset. Pythagoras.

Don't practice until you get it right. Practice until you can't get it wrong. Unknown.

Don't spend time, use it. Just a thought.

Do small things with great love. Mother Teresa.

Drunkenness does not give rise to vices, it reveals them. Plato.

Drunkenness is an exercise in madness. Pythaogoras.

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell.

	·		Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men. Pythagoras.
	·		Education is to teach our children to desire the right things. Plato.
	·		Embrace the man who speaks OF God; Beware the man who speaks FOR God. A saying.
	·		Epithet on an 100 year old tomb stone: Pause stranger when you pass me by; as you are now so once was I; as I am now so you will be; prepare yourself to follow me. – To which someone wrote the following note beneath the poem: To follow you I am not content, until I know which way you went. From a sermon of Dr. David Jeremiah.
	·		Even as Truth, does Error have its lovers. Pythagoras.
	·		Even if all, not me. Etiam omnes ego non. Creed of resistance to injustice.
	·		Even if you knew all, that would still be only all what you know. Just a thought.

Even the devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. Shakespeare.

Even when we believe the Scriptures are without error, it is a risk to think our understanding of it is too. Just a thought.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. Seneca.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford.

Faith is a passionate commitment made in objective uncertainty. Søren Kierkegaard, rephrased by Keith Ward.

Fear wants you to run from something that isn't after you! John L. Mason.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. Epictetus.

For a Christian problems are temporary but blessings are eternal, but for a non-Christian it's blessings that are temporary while problems are eternal. David Jeremiah.

From money we don't have, we buy things we don't need to impress people that we don't like. Just a thought.

	·		Get rid of self-conceit, for it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn, that which he thinks he already knows. Epictetus, Discourses.
	·		Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life. Chinese Proverb.
	·		Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth - Δῶς μοι πᾶ στῶ καὶ τὰν γᾶν κινάσω. Archimedes.
	·		Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. Aurelius Augustine.
	·		Glory is the shadow of virtue - Gloria virtutis umbra. Latin proverb.
	·		God created you with just one mouth but with two ears, that should tell you something. Unknown.
	·		God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined. Aurelius Augustine.
	·		God is the Perfection that absorbs. Indian saying.
	·		God loves you just the way you are, but He loves you too much to let you stay that way. Unknown.
	·		God loves you so much He can't take His eyes off of you. Unknown.
	·		Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. Plato.
	·		Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. Plato.
	·		Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. Eleanor Roosevelt.

	·		Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. Aurelius Augustine.
	·		Happiness is the repression of suffering and anxiety. Epicurus.
	·		He has left, absconded, escaped and disappeared - Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit. Latin saying.
	·		He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. Jim Elliot.
	·		He is not a fool who gives up everything he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. Citation from the diary of a murdered Christian missionary.
	·		He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears. Michel De Montaigne.
	·		He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well. Ovid, Tristium.
	·		He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing. Epicurus.
	·		He who spares the wicked injures the good. Seneca.
	·		History teaches us that people have never learned anything from history. Georg Hegel.
	·		Honesty above richness. Saying.
	·		Hope is always delayed disappointment. Lilia Sjevtsova.

	·		I am a human, nothing human is strange to me - Homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto. Terentius.
	·		I am closest to myself (charity begins at home) - Proximus sum egomet mihi. Terentius.
	·		I believe because it is absurd (contrary to reason) - Credo quia absurdum. Tertullianus.
	·		I burn with love for myself, I am the one who fans the flame and bears the torture. What I desire is with me; that richness has made me poor. Ovid, Narcissus.
	·		If envy had a shape it would be a boomerang. John L. Mason.
	·		If I want to fail and I fail, have I then failed? - A semantic question.
	·		If you are depressed, you are living in the past; if you are anxious you are living in the future; if you are at peace, you are living in the present. Lao Tzu.
	·		If you believe in nothing, you'll fall for anything. Jordan Peterson.
	·		If you cannot have a faithful friend, be your own friend. Pythagoras.
	·		If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Mary Engelbreit.
	·		If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Saying.
	·		If you want to give God a good laugh, tell Him your plans. Yiddish proverb.
	·		If you would marry suitably, marry your equal. Ovid.
	·		I give, so that you may give - do ut des. Latin phrase used in offering to Roman deities.
	·		Ignorance is the root and stem of every evil. Plato.

	·		I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want. Terentius.
	·		I have everything, yet it is worth nothing to me. Freek De Jonge.
	·		In eternity you will be what God has been able to make of you in this life. Henk Binnendijk.
	·		I never worry about people saying evil things about me, because I know a lot more stuff about me than they do and it's worse than what they are saying. From a sermon of Dr. David Jeremiah.
	·		In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln.
	·		In war, there is no substitute for victory. General Douglas MacArthur.
	·		In wine is truth, in water is health - In vino veritas, in aqua sanitas. Latin proverb.
	·		I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. Seneca.
	·		I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left. Seasick Steve.
	·		It are not your conditions, but your decisions that decide your future. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore.
	·		It doesn't matter if it's a white cat or a black cat as long as it catches mice. Deng Xiaopin.
	·		It is better to suffer an injustice than to do an injustice - Accipere quam facere praestat injuriam. Latin proverb.
	·		It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. Epictetus.
	·		It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us - Epicurus.
	·		It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. Epictetus.
	·		It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. Henry David Thoreau.
	·		It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. Mark Twain.
	·		It's nice to be nice. Latin proverb.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they're not out to get you/they aren't after you. From Buck Henry's screenplay of the novel Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.

Just 'cos you got the power, that don't mean you got the right. Lemmy Kilmister, Motörhead.

Kill the sin, love the sinner - Interfice errorem, diligere errantem. Aurelius Augustine.

Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Mark Twain.

Knowledge (in itself) is power - (Nam et) ipsa scientia potestas est. Francis Bacon.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done rigth?. Epictetus.

Let it go, it's just stuff. Joshua Fields Millburn.

Life comes out of death. Elisabeth Elliot.

Life is a lot like the game of tennis: those who don't serve well, end up losing. John L. Mason.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Helen Keller.

Life is hell, death is heaven, except for a non-Christian, for whom it may be the opposite. Just a thought.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius.

Love and dignity do not blend well, nor do they continue long together. Ovid.

Love is an evolved form of emotional attachment that transcends sexual attraction of the physical form. Nattakorn Devakula, Bangkok Post.

Love is a serious mental disease. Plato.

Love me the most when I least deserve it, because then I'll need it the most. Norwegian saying.

Love people and use things, because the opposite never works. Joshua Fields Millburn.

	·		Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something. Dorothy Sayers.
	·		Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems. Epictetus.
	·		Man has been lent to life, not given - Homo vitae commodatus non donatus est. Pubilius Syrus.
	·		Make haste slowly. Suetonius.
	·		Man is a wolf to man - Homo homini lupus. Plautus.
	·		Meekness is not weakness. Mike Mazzalongo.
	·		Men gladly believe that which they wish for - Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt. Caesar.
	·		Mercy is God withholding from you what you deserve; Grace is God giving you what you don't deserve. David Jeremiah.
	·		Most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth and power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge. Pythagoras.
	·		Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. Stephen Covey.

	·		Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. Plato.
	·		Never forgive a friend who betrayed you once — he will betray you again. Plato.
	·		Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Napoleon Bonaparte.
	·		Never let yesterday use up too much of today. John L. Mason.
	·		Never look down on anybody, unless you're helping them up. Jesse Jackson.
	·		Never trust a friend who speaks bad of his comrades. Pythagoras.
	·		No man is free who is not a master of himself. Epictetus.
	·		No one is free who is a slave to his body. Seneca.
	·		No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth. Plato.
	·		Nothing is said that has not been said before. Terentius.
	·		Nothing is stronger than habit. Ovid, Ars Amatoria.
	·		Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. Epicurus.

Oh! my soul do not aspire to eternal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible. | Do not yearn, O my soul, for immortal life! Use to the utmost the skill that is yours. | Do not, my soul, strive for the life of the immortals, but exhaust the practical means at your disposal - μή, φίλα ψυχά, βίον ἀθάνατον σπεῦδε, τὰν δ' ἔμπρακτον ἄντλει μαχανάν. Pythia, the high priestess of the Temple of Apollo and the Oracle of Delphi.

One day your life will flash before your eyes; make sure it's worth watching. Gerard Way.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Plato.

Only dead fish float with the current - Bare døde fisker fløtter med strømen. Norwegian Proverb.

Only the dead have seen the end of war. Plato.

Only the educated are free. Epictetus, Discourses.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson.

People are judged by the company they keep. Saying.

People don't care about how much you know, until they know about how much you care. Saying.

Poverty with dignity is better than wealth based on shame. Thai Proverb.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. You can have your principles, but without power there is little you can do about it. Tony Blair.

Preaching to the choir. Proverb.

Quitters never win, and winners never quit. Saying.

Remorse is beholding heaven and feeling hell. George Moore.

Responsibility is the key to greatness. Winston Churchill.

Royalty is a mixture of myth and reality. Gyles Brandreth.

	·		Seek not to understand so that you may believe, but believe so that you may understand. Augustine of Hippo.
	·		Self conquest is the greatest of victories. Plato.
	·		Simultaneously justified and sinner - Simul iustus et peccator. Martin Luther.
	·		So I can't live either without you or with you. Ovid, Amores.
	·		Some people know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. Saying.
	·		Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. Peter Marshall.
	·		Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. Albert Einstein.
	·		Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. Winston Churchill.
	·		Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. Henry David Thoreau.

	·		Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. Ovid.
	·		Tears at times have all the weight of speech. Ovid.
	·		Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remeber. Involve me and I learn. Benjamin Franklin.
	·		The answer is difficult because it is shrouded in the fog of our historical past. Big Think article.
	·		The appearances of things are deceptive - Fallaces sunt rerum species. Seneca.
	·		The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. Epicurus.
	·		The best family is when the wilfe is blind and the husband deaf. Plato.
	·		The brave find a home in every land. Ovid, Fasti.
	·		The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all. Ovid.

	·		The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. Aurelius Augustine.
	·		The darker the night, the brighter the light (shines). Saying.
	·		The die has been cast - Alea iacta est. Caesar.
	·		The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena (i.e. too late) - Gladiator in arena consilium capit. Seneca.
	·		The goal in a dispute is not to win the argument, it's to maintain the unity while we work out the differences. Mike Mazzalongo.
	·		The good man, I good him; the bad man, I good him too. Taoist Proverb.
	·		The good or ill of a man lies within his own will. Epictetus.
	·		The greatest victory is overcoming your negative thinking. Plato.
	·		The greatest fruit of justice is serenity. Epicurus.
	·		The greatest wealth is to live content with little. Plato.
	·		The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself. Plato.
	·		The great science of living happily is to live only in the present. Pythagoras.
	·		The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about. Albert Einstein.
	·		The intellectual poverty of your argumentation is mind-boggling. Belgian Judge addressing some citizens who tried to prosecute the State for enforcing the 2020 corona measures.
	·		The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. Epictetus.
	·		The measure of a man is what he does with power. Plato.
	·		The more you learn, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. Stephen Hawking.
	·		The more they've got, the less they're worth. A thought on those spending wealth on rubbish.
	·		The most dangerous place to be is in the middle of the road. Unknown.
	·		The New Testament is in the Old Testament CONCEALED; the Old Testament is in the New Testament REVEALED. Augustine of Hippo.
	·		The one thing you cannot do with sheer power is to impose truth on people. John Lennox.
	·		The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants. Plato.
	·		The oldest words: 'yes' and 'no', are those that require the most thought. Pythagoras.
	·		The only people you should try to get even with are those who have helped you. John L. Mason.
	·		The only way to have enough is to desire less. Just a thought.
	·		The philosophical schools are the patriarchs of the heretics. Tertullian, De Anima.
	·		The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. Plato.
	·		There is no justification without sanctification. Martin Luther.
	·		There is nothing terrible in life for someone who truly understands that there is nothing terrible in non-life. Epicurus.
	·		There is no one more stupid than the person who thinks he is not. Sam Vaknin paraphrasing Aristotle.
	·		There is truth in wine and children. Plato.
	·		There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond our power or our will. Epictetus.
	·		There’s a crack in everything, but that’s where the Light gets in. Saying.
	·		The result justifies the deed. Ovid, Heorides.
	·		The song is ended, but the melody lingers on. Ira Gershwin.
	·		The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself. Plato.
	·		The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page. Aurelius Augustine.
	·		The world is boring for boring people. Plato.

	·		Things forbidden have a secret charm. Tacitus.
	·		This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. Aurelius Augustine.
	·		Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire.
	·		Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself. Seneca.
	·		Through difficulties to great things - Per angusta ad augusta. Latin proverb.
	·		Time the devourer of all things. Ovid, Metamorphoses.
	·		To be loved, be lovable. Ovid, Ars Amatoria.
	·		To complain is to leak misery on everyone around you. Just a thought.
	·		Today I do what others won't, so that tomorrow I can accomplish what others don't. Jerry Rice.
	·		To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. Thomas Aquinas.
	·		To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history, but that we will extend a hand of friendship if you are willing to unclench your fist. Barack Obama, Inauguration speech.
	·		Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading. Tertullianus, Adversus Valentinianos.
	·		Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Maori proverb.

Untrue in one thing, untrue in everything - Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus. Latin proverb.

Virtue is the desire of things honourble and the power of attaining them. Plato.

	·		Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. Epictetus.
	·		We are alive; therefore, we are not dead. Big Think article.
	·		We can learn even from our enemies. Ovid, Metamorphoses.
	·		We can easily forgive a child that is afraid of the dark, the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Plato.
	·		We, little fishes, after the image of our Ichthys, Jesus Christ, are born in the water. Tertullian, De Baptismo.
	·		We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give!. Winston Churchill.
	·		We sometimes forget that the loneliest people in the world are those who are constantly in the public eye. Billy Graham.
	·		We two are to ourselves a crowd. Ovid.
	·		We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. Aesop.

What avail is a good cow that gives plenty of milk and then kicks over the bucket. Yiddish proverb.

When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing. Unknown.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. Plato.

When the word does not strike, then the stick will not help either. Plato.

When you have an abortion you're not unpregnant; you're the mother of a dead baby. Anti-abortion slogan.

When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know; but if you listen, you might learn something new. Dalai Lama.

Who gives you more trouble than you? John L. Mason.

Who has a fiercer struggle than he who strives to conquer himself? Thomas à Kempis.

Who is the rich man? He who is content. Epictetus.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. Plato.

Without friendship no communication between people has value. Plato.

Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong. (Also quoted: Doubt is being afraid that God got it wrong, and anxiety is being afraid that God won't get it right). Tim Keller.

Would the child you were be proud of the adult you are? John L. Mason.

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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it [the] present. Bil Keane.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse. Epictetus.

You can find yourself in silence: only in still waters can you see your own image. Unknown.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. Proverb.

You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have. Corrie Ten Boom.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. William Faulkner.

You can't change the people around you, but you can change the people around you. Joshua Fields Millburn.

You can't hide the sky with your palm. The truth must come out. Saying.

You're born an original, don't die a copy. John L. Mason.

You should not honour men more than truth. Plato.

	·		Zero tolerance. Saying.
	·		Zero is on your target and go for it. Saying.

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