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Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people

It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and that ordinary education can take no account of so aristocratic a good. I do not believe this. The joy of mental adventure is far commoner in the young than in grown men and women. …It is rare in later life because everything is done to kill it during education.

John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.

Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.

There are ever two ways of striving to fill one’s place in the world: one is by seeking to prove one’s self useful; the other, by striving to render one’s self useless. The first way is the commoner and the more attractive; the second is the rarer and more noble.

Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face – Poets alone should kiss and tell.

Well, I’ve got something to tell you, In my last life I was a Spanish Count and one of the things I loved to do when I was a count in Spain was take all the commoners, line them up against a wall and throw rocks at them, being a professional hockey goalie is punishment for my bad habits in past lives.

People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? ‘Natural’ death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful.

[John] Adams’s perception of Europe, and especially France, was clearly different than [Tomas] Jefferson’s. For Jefferson, the luxury and sophistication of Europe only made American simplicity and virtue appear dearer. For Adams, by contrast, Europe represented what America was fast becoming – a society consumed by luxury and vice and fundamentally riven by a struggle between rich and poor, gentlemen and commoners.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.

Bravely you jog along with the rope of class distinction drawing closer, close, tighter, tighter around you… I see it and know it, but I cannot help you… I am only an unnecessary, little, bush commoner, I am only a – woman.

Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

I’m just some commoner trying to work in acting.

I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds University, and we lived in Yorkshire for 11 years. When he gave up his job, we realised we could live wherever we liked.

There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.

You didn’t really hold back on Braga so Pickering could kill him, did you? Royce asked after the two were left alone in the hallway. Of course not. I held off because it’s death for a commoner to kill a noble. That’s what I thought. Royce sounded relieved. For a minute, I wondered if you’d gone from jumping on the good-deed wagon to leading the whole wagon train.

The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.

Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but the speaker’s.