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Treat the people with ease and don’t be hard on them; give them glad tidings and don’t fill them with aversion; and love each other, and don’t differ.
MMuhammad571–632Sahih Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 52, Number 275
- Leadership
When someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level. No, our motto is, when they go low, we go high.
Michelle Obamaborn 1964Speech at the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia (25 July 2016)
- Character
Avoid running at all times.
And don’t look back⁠— something might be gaining on you.
Satchel Paige1906–1982“How to Stay Young,” Collier’s Magazine (13 June 1953)
- Comedy
When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him carefully and with respect — but do not believe him. Never put your trust into anything but your own intellect.
Linus Pauling1901–1994Linus Pauling: Scientist and Peacemaker (2001) by Clifford Mead and Thomas Hager.
- Age
It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.
Jordan Petersonborn 196212 Rules for Life (2017), p. 242
Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.
Terry Pratchett1948–2015alt.fan.pratchett (22 November 1993)
- Comedy
Bestow therefore thy youth so, that thou mayest have comfort to remember it when it hath forsaken thee, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
Walter Raleigh1552–1618Instructions to his Son and to Posterity (published 1632), Chapter II
- Youth
You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn’t bear malice toward others.
Ramakrishna1836–1886The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 514
- Religion
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
Christina Rossetti1830–1894Remember (1862)In context
- Happiness
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965The Spiritual Life (1947), p. 164
- Charity
Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your betters.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLVII: On master and slave, Line 11
- Morality
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (1600–1), Act I, scene iii.In context
- Talking
Do not as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
Whilst like a puff’d and reckless libertine
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene III, spoken by OpheliaIn context
- Morality
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express’d in fancy; rich, not gaudy:
For the apparel oft proclaims the man
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene III, spoken by PoloniusIn context
Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene III, spoken by PoloniusIn context
- Friendship
- Money