“Further, nothing, except sin, is contrary to an act of virtue. But war is contrary to peace. Therefore war is always a sin.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

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“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath?”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

“Beware the ides of March.”

― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“It is impossible to experience one’s own death objectively and still carry a tune.”

― Woody Allen, Getting Even

“From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“The doctrine of interest rightly understood is not, then, new, but amongst the Americans of our time it finds universal acceptance: it has become popular there; you may trace it at the bottom of all their actions, you will remark it in all they say.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they’re better.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“They’re a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It’s said that without whisky to soak and soften the world, they’d kill themselves.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“It isn't possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”

― E. M. Forster, A Room with a View

“Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

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