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01c. 1842 AD

Man is the arch-machine of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as the need is

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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02c. 1790 AD

Many people take no care of their money till they have come nearly to an end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe / quote

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03c. 1842 AD

Men are content to be brushed like flies from the path of a great person, so that justice shall be done by him to that common nature which it is the dearest desire of all to see enlarged and glorified.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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04c. 1842 AD

Morals are generated as the atmosphere is. 'Tis a secret the genesis of either; but the springs of justice and courage do not fail any more than salt or sulphur springs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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05c. 1790 AD

Much in the world may be done by severity, more by love, but most of all by discernment and impartial justice.

Goethe / quote

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06c. 1593 AD

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Francis Bacon / quote

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07c. 1842 AD

One man's justice is another man's injustice; one man's beauty, another's ugliness; one man's wisdom, another's folly; as one beholds the same objects from a higher point.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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08c. 1842 AD

Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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09c. 1790 AD

That were but a sorry art which could be comprehended all at once; the last point of which could be seen by one just entering its precincts.

Goethe / quote

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10c. 1642 AD

The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pulley is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel.

Blaise Pascal / quote

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11c. 1790 AD

To the innocent, deliverance and reparation; to the misled, compassion; and to the guilty, avenging justice.

Goethe / quote

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12c. 1842 AD

We have such exorbitant eyes, that, on seeing the smallest arc, we complete the curve, and when the curtain is lifted from the diagram which it served to veil, we are vexed to find that no more was drawn than just that fragment of an arc which we first beheld.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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13c. 1790 AD

What we don't know is just what we need to know; and what we do know we can make no use of.

Goethe / quote

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14c. 1842 AD

When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves; we allow a passage to its beams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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15c. 1790 AD

With some life is exactly like a sleigh-drive, showy and tinkling, but affording just as little for the heart as it offers much to eyes and ears.

Goethe / quote

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16c. 75 BC

Fortitude is to be seen in toils and dangers; temperance in the denial of sensual pleasures; prudence in the choice between good and evil; justice in awarding to every one his due.

Cicero / quote

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17c. 32 AD

Great men often rejoice at crosses of fortune, just as brave soldiers do at wars.

Seneca / quote

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18c. 75 BC

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving no offence.

Cicero / quote

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19c. 75 BC

That elevation of mind which we see in moments of peril, if it is uncontrolled by justice, and strives only for its own advantage, becomes a crime.

Cicero / quote

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20c. 1790 AD

I put no account on him who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.

Goethe / quote

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21c. 1790 AD

Art little? Do thy little well: And for thy comfort know The great can do their greatest work No better than, just so.

Goethe / quote

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22c. 1790 AD

Poems are painted window panes. If one looks from the square into the church, Dusk and dimness are his gains— Sir Philistine is left in the lurch! The sight, so seen, may well enrage him, Nor anything henceforth assuage him. But come just inside what conceals; Cross the holy threshold quite— All at once ’tis rainbow-bright, Device and story flash to light, A gracious splendour truth reveals. This to God’s children is full measure, It edifies and gives you pleasure!

Goethe / quote

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23c. 1790 AD

Justice claims what is due, polity what is seemly; justice weighs and decides, polity surveys and orders; justice refers to the individual, polity to the community.

Goethe / quote

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24c. 1745 AD

Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the wicked in this world, this alone would prevent my having the least doubt of it. So shocking a discord amidst a general harmony of things would make me naturally look for a cause; I should say to myself we do not cease to exist with this life; everything reassumes its order after death.

Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote

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