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Marcus Tullius Cicero 180
Roman philosopher and statesman -106–-43 BCRelated quotes
Andrés Bonifacio
(1863–1897) Filipino nationalist and revolutionary
Quoted in: " Talumpati ni Pangulong Aquino sa pagdiriwang ng anibersaryo ng Araw ng Kalayaan, ika-12 ng Hunyo 2013 http://www.gov.ph/2013/06/12/talumpati-ni-pangulong-aquino-sa-pagdiriwang-ng-anibersaryo-ng-araw-ng-kalayaan-ika-12-ng-hunyo-2013/." on gov.ph. June 12, 2013.
“God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXVIV : A Scheme of Escape; Helen to Little Arthur
Source: Discipleship (1937), The Disciple and Unbelievers, p. 185.
Source: The Cost of Discipleship
“The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.”
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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Context: The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.
The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master’s whiplash.
“Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own;
Believe no evil till the evil's done.”
Jean De La Fontaine
(1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.
Nous n'écoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les nôtres,
Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.
Book I (1668), fable 8.
Fables (1668–1679)
