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“Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.”

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John Ciardi was an American poet born on June 24, 1916, and died on March 30, 1986. Known for his clear and direct style of poetry, he had a profound impact on 20th-century American poetry. more

“Archetypes resemble the beds of rivers: dried up because the water has deserted them, though it may return at any time. An archetype is something like an old watercourse along which the water of life flowed for a time, digging a deep channel for itself. The longer it flowed the deeper the channel, and the more likely it is that sooner or later the water will return.”

May Water Return Bed Rivers Deeper Sooner Or Later Digging Deserted Archetype Water Of Life

Author:Carl Jung

“It is just man's turning away from instinct--his opposing himself to instinct--that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while consciousness can only seek culture or its denial.”

Men Culture Consciousness Instinct Denial Opposing

Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination.”

Self Faces Individual Existence Successful Conditions Personality Determination Universal Absolutes Individuality Supreme Realization Self Determination Affirmation Adaptation Innate

Author:Carl Jung

“According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his strength and increases his courage which had already been crushed and failing, and because there is no better remedy for the health of beaten and overwhelmed men than the absence of all hope.”

Men Should Art War States Enemy Failing Military Despair Increase Absence Remedy Beaten Overwhelmed Crushed

Author:Francois Rabelais

“Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they're less than women.”

War Given Courage Devil Cowardice

Author:Francois Rabelais

“Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.”

Wells Said Religion Half Mass Hypocrisy Monk

Author:Francois Rabelais

“If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both old and young.”

Ifs Young Religion Rejected Monkeys Monk

Author:Francois Rabelais

“The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.”

Christian Religion Court France Nurse Sole Wet

Author:Francois Rabelais

“I build only living stones--men.”

Men Religion Stones Architecture

Author:Francois Rabelais

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