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William Graham Sumner

Socialists are filled with the enthusiasm of equality... Equality of possession or of rights and equality before the law are diametrically opposed to each other. The object of equality before the law is to make the state entirely neutral.

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Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

This is a property of the rational soul, love of one’s neighbor, and truth and modesty, and to value nothing more than itself, which is also the property of Law. Thus then right reason differs not at all from the reason of justice.

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Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else, he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others.

Man | Opinion | Wisdom | Value |

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Astruc of Lunel, originally Abba Mari Ben Moses Ben Joseph NULL

Judaism is based upon the principle of Divine Unity, which signifies the unity and equality of all men.

Equality | Men | Unity | Wisdom |

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Victor Weisskopf, fully Victor "Viki" Frederick Weisskopf

Most forms of human creativity have one aspect n common: the attempt to give some sense to the various impressions, emotions, experiences, and actions that fill our lives, and thereby to give some meaning and value to our existence... The crisis of our time in the Western world is that the search for meaning has become meaningless for many of us.

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Yechiel Michel Tukatinsky

The physical loss is not sufficient for mourning. Purely on a physical level what would a person gain if he lived many more years? What is the ultimate gain in devouring hundreds more chickens and thousands more loaves of bread? What is the overall difference if the deceased left all this to others? The Torah obligates us to mourn to emphasize the loss of the true value of life; which is the spiritual elevation a person could have gained if he were still alive. The Almighty placed him on this earth for this purpose. The person’s death should remind the mourners to fill their lives with the spiritual growth that they are capable of.

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Charles Yriarte

The foolish and vulgar are always accustomed to value equally the good and the bad.

Character | Good | Value |

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Henry François Becque

The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.

Desire | Equality | Wisdom |

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Gamaliel Bailey

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.

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John Barth, fully John Simmons Barth

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

Nothing | People | Wisdom | Value |

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Kenneth Eldon Bailey

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we don't value the sun for its height.

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John Christian Bovee

What man knows should find expression in what he does. The chief value of superior knowledge is that it leads to a performing manhood.

Knowledge | Man | Wisdom | Value |

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth, and can, by dignified silence, contrast with the garrulity of trivial minds, the more will the world give him credit for the wealth he does not possess.

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