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A man can be compelled to do anything, but his soul cannot be forced.

— Simon Soloveychik Parenting for Everyone (1989)

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The feeling of love - is a fervent desire of goodness to a man.

Parenting for Everyone (1989)

Happiness does not depend on the size or content of a goal, but on the strength of the desire to have it.

Parenting for Everyone (1989)

The word "truth" applies to a man's dignity.

Parenting for Everyone (1989)

To see a man as beautiful – means to make him really beautiful. There is no cunning, no deceit; this happens every time, everyone knows that.

Pedagogika dlya vseh (Parenting For Everyone) (1977)

A son is not a judge of his father, but the conscience of the father is in his son.

Pedagogika dlya vseh (Parenting For Everyone) (1977)

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Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Confucius

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