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Obedience
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Walt Whitman
Resist much, obey little.
Leaves of Grass
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Pierre Corneille
When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity
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Henry Thoreau
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves
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Plato
Through obedience learn to command
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Marcus Cicero
He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander
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Aristotle
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love
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Ralph Emerson
Obedience alone gives the right to command
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Thomas Jefferson
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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