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Posted on April 28, 2021April 28, 2021

“The basis of a democratic state is liberty.”—Aristotle, Greek philosopher & polymath, 384-322 BC

Posted on April 20, 2021April 20, 2021

“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”—Confucius, Chinese philosopher, 551-479 BC

Posted on April 14, 2021April 14, 2021

“To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.”—Lao-tsu, Chinese philosopher, 604-531 BC

Posted on April 3, 2021April 3, 2021

“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”—Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch philosopher, 1466-1536

Posted on March 26, 2021March 26, 2021

“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”—Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, 1850-1894

Posted on February 21, 2021

“War is delightful to those who have had no experience with it.”—Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch philosopher, 1466-1536

Posted on February 14, 2021February 14, 2021

“He who thinks himself wise, is a great fool.”—Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), French philosopher, 1694-1778

Posted on February 10, 2021February 10, 2021

“Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.”—Bernard Berenson, American art historian, 1865-1959

Posted on February 7, 2021February 7, 2021

“Language is the dress of thought.”—Dr. Samuel Johnson, English essayist, 1709-1784

Posted on January 23, 2021

“Men have become the tools of their tools.”—Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, 1817-1862

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