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“The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.”

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Epictetus was a renowned Greek philosopher born in 55 AD and died in 135 AD. He founded the Stoic school of philosophy, emphasizing the importance of reason, morality, and self-control, which had a profound impact on subsequent philosophy. more

“My friends, let us try to follow the Saviour's steps; let us remember all day long what it is to be men; that it is to have every one whom we meet for our brother in the sight of God; that it is this, never to meet anyone, however bad he may be, for whom we cannot say: "Christ died for that man, and Christ cares for him still. He is precious in God's eyes, and he shall be precious in mine also".”

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“The era of Christianity peace, brotherhood, the Golden Rule as applied to governmental matters is. yet to come, and when it comes, then, and then only, will the future of nations be sure.”

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“Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.”

Men Father Brother Brotherhood

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“Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.”

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Author:Quintilian

“However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger

“Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.”

Dream Profit Brotherhood Postponing

Author:Eric Sevareid

“We must love men, ere to us they will seem worthy of our love.”

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“Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.”

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Book:Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest

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Book:Blake: The Complete Poems

Source: Blake: The Complete Poems

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