Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

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"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."

- Benjamin Disraeli

Love

"There is no greater risk than matrimony. But there is nothing happier than a happy marriage."

- Benjamin Disraeli

Love

"Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."

- Benjamin Disraeli

Awareness

"Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes."

- Benjamin Disraeli

Belief

"No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition."

- Benjamin Disraeli

Balance

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"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

- Leonardo DaVinci

Inspiration

"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."

- Socrates

Inspiration

"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air."

- Wilbur Wright

Inspiration

"Sometimes, flying feels too God-like to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see."

- Charles A. Lindbergh

Inspiration

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Inspiration