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"Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others."   -- Socrates

"False words are not only evil in themselves but they infect the soul with evil."   -- Plato

"For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are."   -- Niccolo Machiavelli

"If people can't control their own emotions, then they have to start trying to control other people's behavior."   -- John Cleese

"I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others."   -- Socrates

"It's always the ones with the dirty hands pointing the fingers."   -- anon

"Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one."   -- Mark Twain

"Most people will do almost anything you ask them to and almost nothing that you tell them to."   -- Stefan Molyneux

"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle."   -- Thomas Jefferson

"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."   -- Oscar Wilde

"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt."    -- Richard Feynman

"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."    -- Plato

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."    -- Richard Feynman

"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart. This line shifts. .. "   -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"The most powerful form of lie is the omission .."    -- George Orwell

"Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."   -- C. S. Lewis

"To assent to obvious lies is ... in some small way to become evil oneself. ..  A society of emasculated liars is easy to control."    -- Theodore Dalrymple

"Victor Frankl .. drew a similar  .. conclusion: deceitful, inauthentic individual existence is the precursor to social totalitarianism."   -- Jordan Peterson

"We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking."   -- Mark Twain

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."    -- Aristotle

"'What would you call the highest happiness?' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence,' was the answer, given without hesitation."    -- John Buchan

"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers."   -- Socrates

"Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people."    -- Heinrich Heine

"All socialism involves slavery."   -- Herbert Spencer

'As good as you are, and as bad as I am, I'm as good as you are as bad as I am.'    -- Scottish toast

"Defectives demand our obedience to their obsessions."   -- anon

'Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.'    -- Max Planck

"Socialism has been described as a method of loving humanity so that you can be indifferent to your actual neighbor."   -- Richard Fernandez

" .. Solzhenitsyn remarks that Shakespeare’s evildoers, Macbeth notably .. , stop short at a mere dozen corpses because they have no ideology."    -- Theodore Dalrymple

'The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous .. '    -- E.O. Wilson