Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt. Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as strong to think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
—Plutarch
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In a place where there are no men, strive to be a man.
—Hillel the Elder
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Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit. If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
—James Thurber
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There are people who eat earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. (Softly) Sometimes I think it ain’t right to stand and watch them do it.
—Lillian Hellman
