"What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another."

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Source : "Aeneis (Aeneid)". Poem by Virgil (Book II, line 130), 29-19 BC.

Virgil

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“At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical. The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful.”
“Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.”
“There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?”
“Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts The world were poor in thanks, though every soul Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade Of grass, and every atomie of earth To utter it like dew.”
“Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea is that moral principles can help us to a moral explanation of our particular obligations.”

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“The rich get richer until the poor get educated.”
“If we don't take care of each other, who will? ... I don't want to ever say, 'I should've done something.'”

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“The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight in one blow, to live eternity in an hour.”

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