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For if hevene be on this erthe,
and ese to any soule,
it is in cloistre or in scole.

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Articles created

• Henry Demarest Lloyd ⭐️
• Victor L. Berger
• Mercy Otis Warren
• Bhartrihari
• Fabius Maximus
• Mikhail Tal
• Frank T. Johns
• Mourid Barghouti
• Satanta
• Silius Italicus
• Davideis (Cowley)
• Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri
• Abdilatif Abdalla
• Wen Yiduo
• Fujiwara no Teika
• Shmuel HaNagid
• Morris Rosenfeld ⭐️
• Orestes Brownson
• Richard Hildreth
• Shotetsu
• Saigyo ⭐️
• Kobayashi Issa
• Deskaheh
• Epaminondas

Articles massively expanded or improved

• Al-Ma'arri
• Al-Mutanabbi
• Abu Nuwas
• Afrikan Spir
• Bai Juyi
• Mahmoud Darwish
• Emanuel Lasker
• Swahili proverbs
• Matsuo Basho
• Masaoka Shiki

Articles significantly contributed to

• Ennius
• Robert M. La Follette
• Dorothy Thompson
• Du Fu
• Chief Joseph

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• Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed.
  Ignorance of each other's ways and lives has been a common cause, throughout the history of mankind, of that suspicion and mistrust between the peoples of the world through which their differences have all too often broken into war.
  • From The Constitution of UNESCO

• It is not enough for one's words to be understandable.
  One must make oneself unmisunderstandable.
  • Paraphrase of Quintilian

• La clarté est la bonne foi des philosophes.
  • Clarity is the good faith of philosophers.
    • Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues, Reflexions et Maximes, Maxim no. 729

• Non qui parum habet, sed qui plus cupit, pauper est.
  • It is not who has little, but who wants more than they have, that is poor.
    • Seneca, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium; Letter II, line 6

• Δικαιοσύνης καρπὸς μέγιστος ἀταραξία.
  • The greatest reward of righteousness is peace of mind.
    • Attributed to Epicurus by Clement of Alexandria in Stromata

• Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit
  • Obsequiousness begets friends; truth, enmity.
    • Terentius, Andria; Act I, scene i, line 41

• अनुभवति हि मूर्ध्ना पादपस्तीव्रमुष्णं ।
  शमयति परितापं छायया संश्रितानाम् ॥
  • The tree endures the scorching heat direct
    That others may find refuge in it's shade
    • Kalidasa, अभिज्ञानशाकुन्तलम्

• Die Wahrheit kann warten: denn sie hat ein langes Leben vor sich.
  • The truth can wait, for she lives a long life.
    • Schopenhauer, Willen in der Natur