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«As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.»
«Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.»
«A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.»
«I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.»
«History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.»
«I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | About: Act, Carpe Diem | Keywords: lived, resigning, resigns, spiders
«A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.»
«Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom - for himself»
Author: Elbert Hubbard | Keywords: believed, freedom, lived, tyrant
«It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.»

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