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Skull:

--- Quote ---Men were brought into existence for the sake of men, that they might do one another good.
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Cicero

Skull:

--- Quote ---197. Ah, how happily we live,
Without hatred among those who hate!
Without hatred we dwell
Among people who hate.

198. Ah, how happily we live,
Healthy among the sick!
Healthy we dwell
Among people who are sick.

199. Ah, how happily we live,
Carefree among the careworn!
Carefree we dwell
Among people who are careworn.

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Buddha, from Happiness chapter of Dhammapada.

Skull:

--- Quote ---Don’t be judgmental about people. Don’t pass judgment on people. Those who pass judgment on people harm themselves. I, or someone like me, may pass judgment on people.
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Buddha, Anguttara Nikaya 6:44

Skull:

--- Quote ---What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with this as the foremost object ideas of freedom and self-reliance and service to the community were obscured to the point of disappearing. Athens was more and more looked on as a cooperative business, possessed of great wealth, in which all citizens had a right to share... Athens had reached the point of rejecting independence, and the freedom she now wanted was freedom from responsibility. There could be only one result...If men insisted on being free from the burden of a life that was self-dependent and also responsible for the common good, they would cease to be free at all. Responsibility was the price every man must pay for freedom. It was to be had on no other terms.
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Edith Hamilton (d. 1963)

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