Original: Chi possiede il raro dono di credere nell'amicizia, conosce i vostri difetti e li valorizza.
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“Value your friendship. Value your relationships.”
Original: Le persone che hanno il dono di tirarvi fuori da costanti e fastidiosi pensieri, sono speciali. Abbiate cura di loro, sono molto rare.
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Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Friendship
“The rare few, who, early in life, have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.”
Dedication
1870 - 1903, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies' (1890)
Edicts of Ashoka (c. 257 BC)
Context: Beloved-of-the-Gods, King Piyadasi, honors both ascetics and the householders of all religions, and he honors them with gifts and honors of various kinds. But Beloved-of-the-Gods, King Piyadasi, does not value gifts and honors as much as he values this — that there should be growth in the essentials of all religions. Growth in essentials can be done in different ways, but all of them have as their root restraint in speech, that is, not praising one's own religion, or condemning the religion of others without good cause. And if there is cause for criticism, it should be done in a mild way. But it is better to honor other religions for this reason. By so doing, one's own religion benefits, and so do other religions, while doing otherwise harms one's own religion and the religions of others. Whoever praises his own religion, due to excessive devotion, and condemns others with the thought "Let me glorify my own religion," only harms his own religion. Therefore contact (between religions) is good. One should listen to and respect the doctrines professed by others. Beloved-of-the-Gods, King Piyadasi, desires that all should be well-learned in the good doctrines of other religions.
“True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.”
Source: A Voice in the Wind
Free speech in an age of identity politics (2015)
Context: To accept that certain things cannot be said is to accept that certain forms of power cannot be challenged.... This is why free speech is essential not simply to the practice of democracy, but to the aspirations of those groups who may have been failed by the formal democratic processes; to those whose voices may have been silenced by racism, for instance. The real value of free speech, in other words, is not to those who possess power, but to those who want to challenge them. And the real value of censorship is to those who do not wish their authority to be challenged. The right to ‘subject each others’ fundamental beliefs to criticism’ is the bedrock of an open, diverse society. Once we give up such a right in the name of ‘tolerance’ or ‘respect’, we constrain our ability to challenge those in power, and therefore to challenge injustice.
“Sell not the friendship of the Lord for the friendship of the world and its possessions.”
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 29
Original: (it) Le persone speciali, autentiche e rare sono fatte d'amore: hanno il dono di saper conquistare e scaldare il cuore.
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