Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
- Topic: Action, Public Speaking, Reputation, Speech
- Location: Zion National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Man is neither angel nor beast; and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the beast.
If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.
What is a man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.
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