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Maimonides, given name Moses ben Maimon or Moshe ben Maimon, known as "Rambam" NULL
I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
Meister Eckhart, formally Meister von Hochheim
There is a spirit in the soul, untouched by time and flesh, flowing from the Spirit, remaining in the Spirit, itself wholly spiritual. In this principle is God, ever verdant, every flowering in all the joy and glory of His actual Self. Sometimes I have called this principle the Tabernacle of the soul, sometimes a spiritual Light, anon I say it is a Spark. But now I say that it is more exalted over this and that than the heavens are exalted above the earth. So now I name it in a nobler fashion... It is free of all names and void of all forms. It is one and simple, as God is one and simple, and no man can in any wise behold it.
Earth | Glory | God | Joy | Light | Man | Self | Soul | Spirit | Time | Wise | God |
Max Lerner, fully Maxwell "Max" Alan Lerner, aka Mikhail Lerner
Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with enemies of humanity.
Natural law is a practical first principle in the sphere of morality; it forbids evil and commands good. Positive law is a decision that takes circumstances into account and conforms with natural law on credible grounds. The basis of natural law is God, who has created this light, but the basis of positive law is civil authority.
Authority | Circumstances | Decision | Evil | God | Good | Law | Light | Morality |
[Rakove’s Law of Principle and Politics] The citizen is influenced by principle in direct proportion to this distance from the political situation.
Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon I
Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.
Through some strange and powerful principle of "mental chemistry" which has never divulged, Nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, "that something" which recognizes no such word as "impossible," and accepts no such reality as failure.
No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.
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Oscar Wilde, pen name for Fingal O'Flahertie Wills
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
Punctuality | Time |
Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
Do little things in an extraordinary way; be the best one in your line. You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that god's creative principle works in you. Never mind the past. Though your errors be as deep as the ocean, the soul itself cannot be swallowed up by them. Have the unflinching determination to move on your path unhampered by limiting thoughts of past errors.
Determination | God | Life | Life | Little | Mind | Past | Soul | Will | World |
Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
Our worst enemies are those we carry about with us in our own hearts.
Perfect wisdom hath four parts, vis., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not flying danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.
The principle which ought to be the guide of men who would nobly live - that principle, I say, neither kindred, nor honor, nor wealth, nor any other motive is able to implant so well as love. Of what am I speaking? Of the sense of honor and dishonor, without which neither states nor individuals ever do any good or great work.
Dishonor | Good | Honor | Love | Men | Sense | Wealth | Work |