Alan Paton
"To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man."
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"To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man."
"إن التخلي عن مهمة إصلاح المجتمع هو تخلي المرء عن مسؤوليته كإنسان حر."
Alan Paton
"Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom."
"من يدري لأي غاية نحيا، ونجاهد، ونموت؟ يكتب الحكماء كتبًا كثيرة، بكلمات يعسر فهمها. لكن هذا، غاية حياتنا، ومنتهى جهادنا، هو أسمى من كل حكمة بشرية."
Alan Paton
"When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive."
"عندما تُصيبنا جراحٌ عميقة، لا نبرأ منها أبدًا حتى نسامح."
Alan Paton
"Life has not taught me to expect nothing but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors."
Alan Paton
"When men are ruled by fear they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it."
Alan Paton
"Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself but to leave the result to God."
Alan Paton
"When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, “Where are your wounds?” and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, “Was there nothing to fight for?” I couldn’t face that question."
Alan Paton
"There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive."
Alan Paton
"There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man."
Alan Paton
"I have always found that actively lovingsaves one from a morbid preoccupationwith the shortcomings of society."
Alan Paton
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