"You must die erect and unyielding."

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“Curae leues locuntur, ingentes stupent.”

“Cui prodest scelus, is fecit.”

“Iniqua nunquam regna perpetuo manent.”

“Qui nil potest sperare, desperate nihil.”

“Levis est dolor qui capere consilium potest.”

“Pyrrhus: Lex nulla capto parcit aut poenam impedit.Agamemnon: Quod non vetat lex, hoc vetat fieri pudor.Pyr: Quodcumque libuit facere victori licet.Agam.: Minimum decet libere cui multum licet.”

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— Cassandra Clare

Literature1973

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"…Inner peace is important, but I have always felt that living a daily life with peace is the end. So in reality individual peace and global peace are not separate. They are one and the same."

— Ela Bhatt

Politics1933–2022

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"And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women and the hardships and struggles that I saw them overcome, I learned an invaluable lesson: and that is that women can do anything we …"

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Music1957

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