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| Majesty; when a stupid man does something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. | George Bernard Shaw |
| Friends, though absent, are still present. | Cicero |
| Brave actions never want a trumpet. | Thomas Fuller |
| We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them. | Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
| It is a kingly action, believe me, to come to the help of those who are fallen. | Ovid |
| They that will not be counselled, cannont be helped. If you do not hear Reason she will rap you on the knuckles. | Benjamin Franklin |
| He whom the gods favor dies in youth. | Plautus |
| We hope to grow old and fear old age: that is to say, we love life and flee death. | Jean de la Bruyere |
| The same ambition can destroy or save, and makes a patroit as it makes a knave. | Alexander Pope |
| Beware the fury of a patient man. | John Dryden |
| Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. | John Frederick Boyes |
| Art hath an enemy called ignorance. | Ben Jonson |
| Never judge a work of art by its defects. | Washington Allston |
| Dread Autumn, harvest - season of the Goddess of Death. | Horace |
| Autumn wins you best by this, its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. | Robert Browning |
| It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die. | Juvenal |
| True beauty consists of purity of heart. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything. | Peter Marshall |
| Only the suppressed word is dangerous | Ludwig Borne |
| There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
| We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. | Thomas Browne |
| A man's dying is more the survivor's affair than his own. | Thomas Mann |
| No one loves the man whom he fears. | Aristotle |
| A fool may be known by six things: Anger without cause; Speech, without profit; Change, without progress; Inquiry, without object; Putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends. | Arabian Proverb |
| Blessed are the forgetful; for they get the better of even their blunders. | Friedrick Nietzsche |
| Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do. | Robin George Collingwood |
| The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera. | Lewis Hine |
| All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it. | John Berger |