Conflictis the gadfly

Conflictis the gadfly
Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
  

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Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.
Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.
A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.
Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.
Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Nostrength within, no respect without.
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Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.
The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.