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

"Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments."   -- Confucius

"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

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

"It takes a great deal of knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance."    -- Thomas Sowell

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

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

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

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

"There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs."    -- Thomas Sowell

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

"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

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

"But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth."   -- Mahatma Gandhi

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

"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

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