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He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Plato - The Republic
Greek author & philosopher in Athens
427 - 347
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
English political philosopher
1588 - 1679
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
Robert Lynd - Book-"The Pleasures of Ignorance" (1921)
US sociologist
1892 - 1970

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