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

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Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow’s dark array, – Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.

I hate books, they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage, the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all, without regard to race - Dis a war.

Until the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes - Me say war.