Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius (Roman Emperor, lived 121-180 CE)

"Shall I do it? I will; so the end of my action be to do good unto men."

• From the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (Xist Classics edition).

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Odin (from The Prose Edda)

Odin

"Haven't you heard that the gods built a bridge from the earth to the sky and it is called Bifrost? You will have seen it, and possibly you call it the rainbow."

• From The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241 CE), translated by Jesse L. Byock (Penguin Classics edition).

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Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks (1913-2005)

"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free...so other people would also be free."

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Friedrich Schleiermacher

Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834)

"Praxis is an art, speculation is a science, religion is the sensibility and taste for the infinite."

• From On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despises by Friedrich Schleiermacher, translated by Richard Crouter.

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Plato

Plato (5th and 4th Century BCE)

"A good mind, by being in a state of excellence, allows a body to maximize its potential for physical goodness."

• From Plato's Republic, translated by Robin Waterfield.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems."

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."

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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

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Aristotle

Aristotle (Greek philosopher and intellectual, 4th Century BCE)

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

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (United States transcendentalist writer, 1803-1882)

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

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Black Elk

Black Elk (1863-1950)

"And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that make one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy."

• From Black Elk recorded by John G. Neihardt in Black Elk Speaks. The image of Black Elk is licensed under Creative Commons 2.0 (CC 2.0)

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Murasaki Shikibu

Murasaki Shikibu (11th Century Japan)

"You had better not bring up my failings as though they were none of yours!"

• From Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji, translated by Royall Tyler.

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St. Teresa of Avila

St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582 CE)

"True perfection consists in the love of God and of our neighbor, and the more nearly perfect is our observance of these two commandments, the nearer to perfection we shall be."

• From Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila, translated by E. Allison Peers. The background image of St. Teresa is licensed under Creative Commons 4.0 (CC 4.0).

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Virgil

Virgil (79-19 BCE)

"Fear exposes the lowborn man at once."

• From The Aeneid by Virgil, translated by Robert Fagles (Penguin Books edition).

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche (German Philosopher, 1844-1900)

"On the contrary, let me declare expressly that in the days when mankind was not yet ashamed of its cruelty, life on earth was more cheerful than it is now that pessimists exist."

• From Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals, translated by Walter Kaufmann in Basic Writings of Nietzsche.

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Buddha

The Buddha

"Win over an angry person with poise.
Win over a mean one with kindness.
Win over a greedy person with generosity,
and one who speaks falsely with honesty."

• From The Dhammapada (circa 3rd Century BCE, chapter 17) translated by Glenn Wallis.

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Buddha

The Buddha (recorded 3rd century BCE)

"If something is to be done,
one should proceed firmly.
The inattentive practitioner
is more scattered than the dust."

• From The Dhammapada (chapter 22), translated by Glenn Wallis.

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Xunzi (Hsün Tzu)

Xunzi (Hsün Tzu, 3rd century BCE Chinese Confucian Philosopher)

"Through rites Heaven and earth join in harmony, the sun and moon shine, the four seasons proceed in order, the stars and constellations march, the rivers flow, and all things flourish."

• From Hsün Tzu: Basic Writings translated by Burton Watson.

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Joseph E. Johnston

Joseph E. Johnston (Confederate General of the U.S. Civil War, lived 1807-1891)

"The Southern infantry had great advantage over the Northern in their greater familiarity with firearms. It was the reverse, however, in relation to the artillery; for that of the South had had neither time nor ammunition for practice, while much of that of the North belonged to the regular service."

• From Joseph E. Johnston's Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War.

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Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE)

"Eloquence is the attendant of peace, the companion of ease and prosperity, and the tender offspring of a free and a well established constitution."

• From Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators, translated by E. Jones.

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Gottfried Leibniz

Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716 CE)

"We could never be informed of anything whose idea we do not already have in mind."

• From Leibniz's Discourse on Metaphysics, c. 1686, translated by Mary Morris and G. H. R. Parkinson.

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Anna Komnene

Anna Komnene (Princess of the Roman Empire in the Byzantine Era; she lived 1083-1153 CE)

"Bohemond was in fact like the acrid smoke which precedes a fire, the preliminary skirmish which comes before the great assault. Father and son you might liken to caterpillars and locusts, for what was left by Robert, his son fed on and devoured."

• From Anna Komnene's Alexiad (Book I, section 14), translated by E. R. A. Sewter (Penguin Classics edition).

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Jeannette Rankin

"As a woman, I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else."

• This quote was stated by Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin as the United States Congress voted for war against Japan following the Pearl Harbor attack. She was the only vote against the war. Rankin was elected as a Congresswoman for two terms, first from 1917-1919, and again from 1941-1942. She was a lifelong women's and civil rights advocate, and a stalwart pacifist all her life.

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Lao Tzu

Lao Tzu (6th and 5th Century Daoist)

"In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak
than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong
nothing can surpass it."

• From Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching (Book Two, LXXVIII), translated by D. C. Lau (Penguin Classics edition).

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Lao Tzu

Lao Tzu (6th and 5th Century BCE Chinese Daoist)

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

• From the writings of Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching, chapter 64).

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Virgil

Virgil (70-19 BCE)

"The Harpies...no monster on earth more cruel,
no scourge more savage, no wrath of the gods has
ever raised its head from the Styx's waters.
The faces of girls, but birds! A loathsome ooze
discharges from their bellies, talons for hands,
their jaws deathly white with a hunger never sated."

• From The Aeneid (Book III, approximately line 260) by Virgil, translated by Robert Fagles (Penguin Books edition).

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Mencius

Mencius (4th Century BCE Chinese Confucian Philosopher)

"Think of the consequences before you speak of the shortcomings of others."

• From Mencius, translated by D. C. Lau (Penguin Classics Edition).

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The Tale of Genji (by Murasaki Shikibu)

"When the clouds to me seem always to be the smoke that rose from her pyre,

how fondly i rest my eyes on the evening sky."

• From The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Sikibu, translated by Royall Tyler (Penguin Classics edition). The background photo is licensed under Creative Commons 3.0 (CC 3.0).

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Confucius

Confucius (Lived around 551-479 BCE)

"He who will not worry about what is far off will soon find something worse than worry close at hand."

• From The Analects of Confucius, translated by Arthur Waley.

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