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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.


Francis of Assisi


#any #compassion #creatures #deal #exclude

This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.


Victor Hugo


#wise-men #men

I admit, that the brain does not govern the body as well as one might wish- else all men would be saints and hell would be empty of lechers.


Meredith Duran


#men #sex #truth #wise #men

[...] There are tales among us that you have sold yourself to the devil, and I know not what.' 'We all have, have we not?' returned the stranger, looking up. 'If we were fewer in number, perhaps he would give better wages.


Charles Dickens


#selling-soul #wise-words #money

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.


Samuel Lover


#instruments #rulers #weak #wise

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.


Aldo Leopold


#community #integrity #otherwise #preserve #right

When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.


Criss Jami


#approval #authority #blanket #brute-force #brutes

The scariest thing about the world is knowing it goes on when you're not there.


Eric Kahn Gale


#bullying

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.


Henry Miller


#anyone #belief #destiny #enough #great

...what is sacred is the other person -we forget that sometimes - and fail to honor who they are ...


John Geddes


#persons #respect #sacred #wise-words #respect






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