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Miguel de Cervantes, fully Miguel de Cervantes Saaversa
He is best served who has no occasion to put the hand of others at the end of his arms.
Catherine II "Catherine the Great", born Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg NULL
I praise loudly; I blame softly.
It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others - and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.
Joseph Francis Eduard Desmahis
We cannot do evil to others without doing it to ourselves.
Charles Alexander Eastman, first named Ohiyesa
The first American mingled with her pride a singular humility. Spiritual arrogance was foreign to his nature and teaching. He never claimed that his power of articulate speech was proof of superiority over “dumb creation”; on the other hand, speech to him is a perilous gift. He believes profoundly in silence - the sign of perfect equilibrium. silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and spirit. The an who preserves his selfhood ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence - not a leaf, as it were, astir on the tree, not a ripple upon the surface of the shining pool - his, in the mind of the unlettered sage, is the ideal attitude and conduct of life.
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Rabbi Eleazar ben Azariah NULL
Who stimulates others to do good is greater than the doer.
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Charles de Saint-Évremond, fully Charles Marguetel de Saint-Denis, seigneur de Évremond
The censure of those that are opposed to us is the nicest commendation that can be given us.
George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans
Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us - the ties that have made others depend on us - and would cut them in two.