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Mind moves matter.
VirgilVirgil It is easy to go down into Hell but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air – there’s the rub.
VirgilVirgil Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.
VirgilVirgil Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man’s mad desire become his god?
VirgilVirgil Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
VirgilVirgil Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
VirgilVirgil Through pain I’ve learned to comfort suffering men.
VirgilVirgil Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.
VirgilVirgil The descent into Hell is easy.
VirgilVirgil As it spreads, the rumor gains strength.
VirgilVirgil Spare the meek, but subdue the arrogant.
VirgilVirgil The noblest motive is the public good.
VirgilVirgil Let me rage before I die.
VirgilVirgil The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all.
VirgilVirgil No other evil we know is faster than Rumor.
VirgilVirgil No other evil we know is faster than Rumor.
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Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Fear only the will of God and you will have no cause to fear anyone else.
Imam AliImam Ali I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.
Rosa ParksRosa Parks The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.
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