Eminent posts make great men greater, and little men less.
-Jean de La Bruyere, essayist and moralist (1645-1696)
clear conscience or...
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
-Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971)
-Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971)
didn't .... enough
The only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough.
-Ted Hughes, poet (1930-1998)
the hard fact...
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
-Dallas Pratt, psychiatrist (1914-1994)
die & life courageously
The politician wants men to know how to die courageously; the poet wants men to live courageously.
-Salvatore Quasimodo, poet, Nobel laureate (1901-1968)
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