Many / One
A database of 11,000+ illuminated guiding quotations in 40 categories from 600+ inspired books by our most brilliant and influential authors.
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"In the Egyptian Middle Kingdom, the Golden Rule was a proverb sacred to Maat, the Mother of Justice, 'Do the other good, that he may do good to you.'"
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"Greek democracy was based on the idea that through enlightenment and reason each citizen would become capable of self-government and would make no moral errors."
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"Babylonians called the Great Mother Aya, the Mother of All Things."
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"A Sumerian prayer declared: 'Hear O ye regions….magnify the Creatress, exalt the dignified, exalt the Glorious One, draw nigh unto the Mighty Lady.'"
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"Love of God and one's neighbor is the whole of the commandments." Anonymous Dominican nun, 19th century
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"Socrates's famous dictum 'Know thyself' was Stoic aphorism for knowing God. Fusing divinity with self produced 'conscience.'"
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