Life is a gift and it offers us the privilege, opportunity and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad, in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

He who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

I am a woman, phenomenally phenomenal woman, that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people and therefore deprive them of their arms.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

If you cannot endure abuse from another, just say a simple word or two, or else leave.

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