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100 AD·Nicopolis
It is not things that disturb us, but our judgments about things. For example, death is nothing terrible, for if it were, it would have appeared so to Socrates; but the judgment that death is terrible — that is the terrible thing.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
Eleanor Roosevelt·1960One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted. (11 May 1943)
Mary Wollstonecraft·1792Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
Henry David Thoreau·1854The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
