Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct—never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.
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March 26, 1754.Philip Stanhope
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At this point, an urgent question arises: ... Is it our duty to seek to become a thorough and complete human being, one quite sufficient unto himself; or, on the contrary, to be only a part of a whole, the organ of an organism? Briefly, is the division of labor, at the same time that it is a law of nature, also a moral rule of human conduct; and, if it has this latter character, why and in what degree?
Emile Durkheim
When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.
Don DeLillo
An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. For this reason I have always been passionately opposed to systems such as we see in Italy and Russia to-day.
Albert Einstein
Can heav'nly minds such high resentment show?
John Dryden
This conduct is right in the strike zone of the concept of high crimes and misdemeanors.
Russ Feingold
Stanhope, Philip, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Stankovic, John A.
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