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The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
 Philibert Joseph Roux

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.
 Philibert Joseph Roux
What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.
 Philibert Joseph Roux
Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.
 Philibert Joseph Roux
Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.
 Philibert Joseph Roux
Success causes us to be more praised than known.
 Philibert Joseph Roux