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“Life that dares send A challenge to his end, And when it comes, say, Welcome, friend!” — Richard Crashaw

“You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn”. –Desiderius Erasmus

“Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation”. –William Whewell

“The life of man is made up of action and endurance; and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance”. –Henry Liddon

“Familiarity breeds contempt, but privacy excites interest”. –Apuleius

“They think democracy — I used to say ‘damn the democracy’, because it’s not a stable government”. –Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Better to be cheated by the price than by the merchandise”. –Baltasar Gracián

“Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive prophets, when critically examined, turn out to be false”. –Kabir

“It is not always charity, alas, which has grown greater, or which has become more enlightened: it is often faith, the taste for the things of eternity, which has grown less. Injustice and violence are still reigning; but they are now in the service of degraded passions”. –Henri de Lubac

“Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it”. –Giordano Bruno