Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.


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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason...
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Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to w...
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Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the...
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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. [Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura ...
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