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Gilbert Chesterton
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
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Edmund Burke
They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man
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Abraham Lincoln
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong
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Abraham Lincoln
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong
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Voltaire
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong
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Mark Twain
Always do right. That will gratify some of the people and astonish the rest
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Friedrich Schiller
It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so
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Marcus Cicero
There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you
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Ovid
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour
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Aristotle
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established
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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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