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„We have inherited our country from the previous generations, which had won and shaped it. Own country is an excellent value per se.“

—  Egils Levits Latvian judge, jurist and politician 1955

Source: Address given Assuming the Office / at the Saeima, https://www.president.lv/en/article/address-he-president-latvia-mr-egils-levits-assuming-office-saeima

„The ideal country does not exist, as progress would discontinue. A life without ideals would be individually miserable and politically useless.“

—  Egils Levits Latvian judge, jurist and politician 1955

Source: Address given Assuming the Office / at the Saeima, https://www.president.lv/en/article/address-he-president-latvia-mr-egils-levits-assuming-office-saeima

„Latvian language, culture, history and world outlook do not belong to Latvians only. Everyone who identifies oneself with some minority is kindly welcome to participate in the life of the country by preserving one's minority culture, language, and traditions in parallel. It is a contribution to richness and diversity of Latvia's culture.“

—  Egils Levits Latvian judge, jurist and politician 1955

Source: Address given Assuming the Office / at the Saeima, https://www.president.lv/en/article/address-he-president-latvia-mr-egils-levits-assuming-office-saeima

„Common good also has a future dimension. Our task is hand over our country to the next generations better than we inherited that. One's own country must be continuously adjusted, renewed and modernised so that it would be sustainable. That is our duty towards the history.“

—  Egils Levits Latvian judge, jurist and politician 1955

Source: Address given Assuming the Office / at the Saeima, https://www.president.lv/en/article/address-he-president-latvia-mr-egils-levits-assuming-office-saeima

„Many generations create a common good. We are only a part of that sequence of generations.“

—  Egils Levits Latvian judge, jurist and politician 1955

Source: Address given Assuming the Office / at the Saeima

„Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.“

—  Horace Roman lyric poet -65 - -8 BC

„Technology presumes there’s just one right way to do things and there never is.“

—  Robert M. Pirsig American writer and philosopher 1928 - 2017

„He who is contented is rich.“

—  Laozi semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and founder of… -604

„I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.“

—  Judy Collins American singer and songwriter 1939

„The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.“

—  Ovid Roman poet -43 - 17 BC

„The doors of wisdom are never shut.“

—  Benjamin Franklin American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, a… 1706 - 1790

„I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.“

—  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry French writer and aviator 1900 - 1944

„There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.“

—  Buckminster Fuller American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist 1895 - 1983

„We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.“

—  Albert Schweitzer French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher 1875 - 1965

„It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.“

—  Robert Southey British poet 1774 - 1843

„Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.“

—  Gautama Buddha philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism -563 - -483 BC

„Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.“

—  Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955

„Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.“

—  Herodotus ancient Greek historian, often considered as the first historian -484 - -425 BC

„There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.“

—  Francis Bacon English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author 1561 - 1626