Alphabetical Author Catalogue
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Abraham Maslow
A musician must make music, an...
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Abraham Maslow
It is quite true that man lives by...
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Abraham Maslow
The peak experience is the highest...
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Abraham Maslow
We fear our highest possibilities...
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Abraham Maslow
The self-actualizing person is...
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Abraham Maslow
The story of the human race is the...
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Adam Smith
It is not from the benevolence of...
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Adam Smith
By pursuing his own interest he...
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Adam Smith
Man is an animal that makes...
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Adam Smith
The real price of every thing... is...
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Adam Smith
Little else is requisite to carry a...
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Adam Smith
Consumption is the sole end and...
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Adam Smith
No society can surely be...
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Adam Smith
Science is the great antidote to...
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Adam Smith
How selfish soever man may be...
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Adam Smith
We are ruined not by what we really...
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Adam Smith
The man of system is apt to be very...
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Adam Smith
All money is a matter of belief.
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Al-Farabi
Happiness is the good that is...
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Al-Farabi
The excellent city resembles the...
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Al-Farabi
The soul is not a body, nor is it...
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Al-Farabi
Man's ultimate perfection consists...
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Al-Farabi
Ignorance is not merely the absence...
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Al-Farabi
The ranks of the citizens of the...
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Al-Farabi
The theoretical virtues consist in...
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Al-Ghazali
Knowledge without action is...
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Al-Ghazali
The knower of God is one who knows...
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Al-Ghazali
I began to examine the objects of...
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Al-Ghazali
The disease is skepticism, and its...
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Al-Ghazali
Whoever knows himself, knows his...
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Al-Ghazali
The real is not made real by our...
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Al-Ghazali
Certainty is not attained save...
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Al-Ghazali
The final aim and object of...
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Al-Ghazali
The world is a mirror in which the...
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Al-Ghazali
He who does not know his own self,...
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Al-Ghazali
The proof of the pudding is in the...
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Al-Ghazali
Man's chief good, in this world and...
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Albert Camus
The absurd is the essential concept...
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Albert Camus
One must imagine Sisyphus happy....
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Albert Camus
If there is no God, if all things...
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Albert Camus
Revolt is the assertion of human...
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Albert Camus
There is but one truly serious...
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Albert Camus
Rebellion must be limited. There...
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Albert Camus
Living is the opposite of being...
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Albert Camus
When plague strikes, people are...
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Albert Camus
Capital punishment is an admission...
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Alexis de Tocqueville
The health of a democratic society...
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Alexis de Tocqueville
America is great because she is...
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Alexis de Tocqueville
The American Republic will endure...
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Alexis de Tocqueville
I know of no country in which there...
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Alexis de Tocqueville
The tyranny of the majority
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Americans of all ages, all...
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Alexis de Tocqueville
In democratic ages men rarely...
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Alexis de Tocqueville
The despotism of democratic...
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Alexis de Tocqueville
A democratic government is the only...
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Alexis de Tocqueville
The greatness of America lies not...
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Alfred Adler
To be a human being means to...
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Alfred Adler
Courage, as evidenced by the...
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Alfred Adler
The only child has advantages and...
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Alfred Adler
Meanings are not determined by...
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Alfred Adler
An inferiority complex does not...
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Alfred Adler
The three great life tasks are...
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Anton Chekhov
If you are afraid of loneliness, do...
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Anton Chekhov
If you feel that you have no gift...
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Anton Chekhov
An honest writer is bound to...
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Anton Chekhov
The whole of life is but a moving...
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Anton Chekhov
In life it is not important the...
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Aristotle
None of the moral virtues arises in...
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Aristotle
We are adapted by nature to receive...
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Aristotle
Men become builders by building and...
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Aristotle
We become just by doing just acts,...
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Aristotle
States of character arise out of...
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Aristotle
It makes no small difference...
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Aristotle
By being habituated to despise...
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Aristotle
It is by the excellence of the eye...
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Aristotle
Virtue is a kind of mean, since it...
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Aristotle
Men are good in but one way, but...
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Aristotle
It is no easy task to be good.
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Aristotle
Any one can get angry — that is...
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Aristotle
Goodness is both rare and laudable...
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Aristotle
The friend is a second self.
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Aristotle
Without friends no one would choose...
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Aristotle
Happiness is the meaning and the...
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Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal.
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Aristotle
The state is a creation of nature,...
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Aristotle
He who is unable to live in...
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Aristotle
Poetry is finer and more...
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Aristotle
Tragedy is an imitation of an...
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Aristotle
The whole is more than the sum of...
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Aristotle
Educating the mind without...
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Aristotle
Knowing yourself is the beginning...
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Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do....
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Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind...
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Aristotle
Pleasure in the job puts perfection...
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Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul...
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Aristotle
The energy of the mind is the...
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Aristotle
Nature does nothing uselessly.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
The world as we know it is the...
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Man can do what he wills, but he...
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Man can endure almost any hardship...
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Man can be happy alone but never...
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Intellect is invisible to the man...
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Augustine of Hippo
Our heart is restless until it...
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Augustine of Hippo
Give me chastity and continence,...
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Augustine of Hippo
Late have I loved thee, O Beauty...
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Augustine of Hippo
Thou hast made us for Thyself, O...
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Augustine of Hippo
The world is a book, and those who...
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Augustine of Hippo
Faith is to believe what we do not...
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Augustine of Hippo
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Augustine of Hippo
Right is right, even if everyone is...
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Augustine of Hippo
In essentials unity, in doubtful...
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Augustine of Hippo
An unjust law is no law at all.
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Augustine of Hippo
Love, and do what you will.
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Augustine of Hippo
He who created us without our help...
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Augustine of Hippo
Miracles are not contrary to...
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Augustine of Hippo
It is solved by walking.
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Augustine of Hippo
Man is a great deep... the hairs of...
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Augustine of Hippo
What then is time? If no one asks...
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Augustine of Hippo
Grant what You command, and command...
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Augustine of Hippo
Since we cannot attain unto great...
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Augustine of Hippo
The good, if it is not perfect, is...
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Augustine of Hippo
There is no death so bad as the...
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Augustine of Hippo
Hope has two beautiful daughters:...
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Augustine of Hippo
Rome has spoken, the case is closed.
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Augustine of Hippo
You are a soul, you are made from...
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Averroes
Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads...
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Averroes
Truth cannot contradict truth.
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Averroes
It is our duty to examine the...
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Averroes
Demonstration leads to only one...
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Averroes
The generality of scripture is...
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Avicenna
I existed, and my existence was not...
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Avicenna
The soul is aware of its own...
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Avicenna
Medicine is the science by which we...
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Avicenna
Truth is sought for its own sake.
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Avicenna
The necessary existent is that...
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Avicenna
Anything that comes into existence...
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Baruch Spinoza
Peace is not an absence of war, it...
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Baruch Spinoza
The more clearly you understand...
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Baruch Spinoza
All things excellent are as...
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Baruch Spinoza
Desire is the very essence of man.
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Baruch Spinoza
Blessedness is not the reward of...
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Baruch Spinoza
Fear cannot be without hope nor...
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Baruch Spinoza
The greatest pride, or the greatest...
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Baruch Spinoza
Nothing exists from whose nature...
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Baruch Spinoza
Man is a social animal.
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Baruch Spinoza
Those who are believed to be most...
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Baruch Spinoza
I have laboured carefully, not to...
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Baruch Spinoza
The endeavor to understand is the...
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Benjamin Franklin
An investment in knowledge pays the...
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Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,...
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Benjamin Franklin
By failing to prepare, you are...
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Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
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Benjamin Franklin
In this world nothing can be said...
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Benjamin Franklin
Tell me and I forget, teach me and...
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Benjamin Franklin
Either write something worth...
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Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all...
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Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
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Benjamin Franklin
They that can give up essential...
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Benjamin Franklin
Guests, like fish, begin to smell...
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Benjamin Franklin
There never was a good war or a bad...
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Benjamin Franklin
Diligence is the mother of good...
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Benjamin Franklin
When you're finished changing,...
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Bertrand Russell
Philosophy is to be studied, not...
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Bertrand Russell
Do not fear to be eccentric in...
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Bertrand Russell
What is wanted is not the will to...
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Bertrand Russell
The happiness of a man is best...
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Bertrand Russell
I believe that love and knowledge...
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Bertrand Russell
The good life is one inspired by...
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Blaise Pascal
The heart has its reasons which...
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Blaise Pascal
Man is but a reed, the most feeble...
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Blaise Pascal
The eternal silence of these...
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Blaise Pascal
All of humanity's problems stem...
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Blaise Pascal
We know the truth, not only by the...
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Blaise Pascal
Man's greatness lies in his power...
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Blaise Pascal
Between us and heaven or hell there...
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Blaise Pascal
Justice without force is powerless;...
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Blaise Pascal
I have made this letter longer than...
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Blaise Pascal
The last thing one knows in...
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Blaise Pascal
Small minds are concerned with the...
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Blaise Pascal
Imagination decides everything.
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Boethius
No man can ever really be secure...
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Boethius
Fortune is more powerful when she...
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Boethius
If Fortune should ever begin to...
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Boethius
In every ill turn of fortune the...
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Boethius
Nothing is miserable unless you...
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Boethius
The condition of human nature is...
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Boethius
There is a certain power in a...
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Boethius
All fortune is surely good.
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Boethius
The mind of man cannot lay aside...
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Boethius
As soon as you leave off desire you...
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Boethius
Every fortune is good fortune to...
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Boethius
God looks down from on high,...
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Boethius
Providence is the very Divine...
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Boethius
Change is the very stuff of life.
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Carl Jung
Until you make the unconscious...
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Carl Jung
The shadow is a moral problem that...
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Carl Jung
How can I be substantial if I do...
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Carl Jung
Individuation is the psychological...
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Carl Jung
Projections change the world into...
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Carl Jung
There is no coming to consciousness...
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Charles Dickens
It was the best of times, it was...
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Charles Dickens
It is a far, far better thing that...
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Charles Dickens
It was a bright cold day in April,...
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Cicero
A room without books is like a body...
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Cicero
While there's life, there's hope.
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Cicero
The safety of the people shall be...
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Cicero
To be ignorant of what occurred...
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Cicero
A friend is, as it were, a second...
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Cicero
Friendship makes prosperity more...
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Cicero
The good of the people is the...
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Cicero
Nothing is so intolerable as...
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Cicero
History is the witness of the...
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Cicero
It is not by muscle, speed, or...
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Cicero
Old age, especially an honored old...
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Cicero
The life given us by nature is...
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Cicero
In everything the middle course is...
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Cicero
Silence is one of the great arts of...
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Cicero
The sinews of war are unlimited...
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Cicero
Laws are silent in time of war.
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Cicero
There is nothing so absurd but some...
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Cicero
The pursuit, even of the best...
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Cicero
Gratitude is not only the greatest...
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Cicero
To live is to think.
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Cicero
Nature has given man no better...
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Cicero
As I approve of a youth that has...
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Cicero
The Republic (res publica) is the...
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Cicero
A nation can survive its fools, and...
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Cicero
Not to know what happened before...
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Confucius
When you know a thing, to hold that...
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Confucius
To study without thinking is...
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Confucius
When I walk along with two others,...
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Confucius
The superior man thinks always of...
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Confucius
If a man be without the virtues...
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Confucius
Filial piety and brotherly...
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Confucius
If you set an example by being...
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Confucius
The superior man seeks within...
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Confucius
The strength of a nation derives...
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Confucius
The superior man is anxious lest he...
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Confucius
The superior man is slow in his...
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Confucius
Music produces a kind of pleasure...
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Confucius
At fifteen, I set my heart on...
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Confucius
The superior man seeks to...
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Confucius
Let the ruler be a ruler, the...
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Confucius
When you know a thing, to hold that...
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Confucius
Do not do to others what you would...
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Confucius
The strength of a nation derives...
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Confucius
I am not one who was born with...
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Confucius
When the wise are at fault, it is...
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Confucius
The rules of propriety are...
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Confucius
The superior man makes demands on...
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Confucius
The superior man makes certain that...
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Confucius
There are three things which the...
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Confucius
The superior man is to the people...
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Confucius
If a man takes no thought about...
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Confucius
When you make a mistake, do not be...
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Confucius
Respect the spirits and gods, but...
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Confucius
To put the world in order, we must...
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Confucius
Learning without thought is futile;...
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Confucius
Promote the worthy and place them...
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Confucius
He who moves a mountain begins by...
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Confucius
It is shameful to call a sword what...
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Confucius
The strength of a nation derives...
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Confucius
The superior man extends his...
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Confucius
The man of principle is slow to...
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Confucius
When one's father is alive, look at...
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Confucius
The superior man understands what...
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Confucius
By nature, men are nearly alike; by...
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Confucius
When the ruler is benevolent, all...
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Confucius
A man who has committed a mistake...
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Confucius
The firm, the enduring, the simple,...
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Confucius
The superior man harmonizes but...
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Daniel Kahneman
System 1 operates automatically and...
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Daniel Kahneman
The availability heuristic:...
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Daniel Kahneman
The anchoring effect: the first...
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Daniel Kahneman
Loss aversion: losses loom larger...
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Daniel Kahneman
We have an illusion of...
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Daniel Kahneman
The psychological impact of an...
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Dante Alighieri
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
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Dante Alighieri
Love is the force that moves the...
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Dante Alighieri
Understanding cannot be conquered...
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Dante Alighieri
In the middle of the journey of our...
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Dante Alighieri
Virtue is not an accident, but a...
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David Hume
A wise man proportions his belief...
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David Hume
Reason is, and ought only to be,...
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David Hume
Custom is the great guide of human...
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David Hume
Beauty in things exists in the mind...
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David Hume
The rules of morality are not the...
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David Hume
Truth springs from argument amongst...
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David Hume
It is seldom that liberty of any...
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David Hume
No testimony is sufficient to...
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David Hume
The identity we ascribe to the mind...
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David Hume
Generally speaking, the errors in...
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David Hume
Nothing is more surprising than the...
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David Hume
Be a philosopher, but amid all your...
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Diogenes of Sinope
I am a citizen of the world.
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Diogenes of Sinope
It is the privilege of the gods to...
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Diogenes of Sinope
He has the most who is most content...
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Diogenes of Sinope
The foundation of every state is...
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Diogenes of Sinope
Dogs and philosophers do the...
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Diogenes of Sinope
I threw away my cup when I saw a...
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Diogenes of Sinope
Wealth is the parent of luxury and...
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Diogenes of Sinope
When asked what wine he liked to...
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Diogenes of Sinope
Blushing is the color of virtue.
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Diogenes of Sinope
The sun too penetrates into...
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Diogenes of Sinope
Standing in the marketplace, he...
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Diogenes of Sinope
Of what use is a philosopher who...
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Diogenes of Sinope
Man is the most intelligent of the...
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Diogenes of Sinope
I am looking for an honest man.
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Diogenes of Sinope
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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Edmund Burke
The only thing necessary for the...
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Edmund Burke
Those who don't know history are...
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Edmund Burke
Society is indeed a contract... it...
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Edmund Burke
It is not what a lawyer tells me I...
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Edmund Burke
Liberty must be limited in order to...
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Edmund Burke
The people never give up their...
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Edmund Burke
Bad laws are the worst sort of...
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Edmund Burke
No passion so effectually robs the...
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Edmund Burke
Custom reconciles us to everything.
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Edmund Burke
All government, indeed every human...
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Edmund Burke
A state without the means of some...
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Edmund Burke
Superstition is the religion of...
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Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers...
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Emily Dickinson
Pain—has an Element of Blank—It...
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Emily Dickinson
I dwell in Possibility—It is a...
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Epictetus
Of all existing things some are in...
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Epictetus
In our power are opinion, pursuit,...
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Epictetus
Men are disturbed not by the things...
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Epictetus
It is the act of an ill-instructed...
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Epictetus
Seek not that the things which...
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Epictetus
Sickness is an impediment to the...
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Epictetus
You may fetter my leg, but my will...
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Epictetus
First say to yourself what you...
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Epictetus
No man is free who is not master of...
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Epictetus
Only the educated are free.
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Epictetus
It is difficult to combine and...
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Epictetus
He is a wise man who does not...
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Epictetus
Do not seek to have events happen...
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Epictetus
Circumstances do not make the man,...
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Epictetus
Wealth consists not in having great...
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Epictetus
It's not what happens to you, but...
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Epictetus
Man is not worried by real problems...
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Epictetus
If you want to improve, be content...
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Epictetus
Nature hath given men one tongue...
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Epictetus
Freedom is the only worthy goal in...
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Epictetus
Any person capable of angering you...
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Epictetus
He who hangs on to riches is like a...
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Epictetus
Contentment comes not from having...
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Epictetus
Some things are in our control and...
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Epictetus
The things in our control are by...
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Epictetus
The things not in our control are...
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Epictetus
Don't demand that things happen as...
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Epictetus
With every accident, ask yourself...
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Epictetus
Men are disturbed, not by things,...
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Epictetus
It is not death, or pain, that is...
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Epictetus
Never call yourself a philosopher,...
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Epictetus
The first and necessary topic in...
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Epictetus
Difficulties are things that show...
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Epictetus
Demand not that events should...
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Epictetus
No man is free who is not master of...
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Epictetus
Freedom is not achieved by...
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Epictetus
It is not things themselves that...
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Epictetus
If you wish to improve, be content...
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Epictetus
When you are offended at any man's...
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Epictetus
There is only one thing for which...
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Epictetus
Circumstances do not make the man,...
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Epictetus
The beginning of philosophy is the...
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Epictetus
The chief task of a philosopher is...
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Epictetus
If you desire to be free, desire...
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Epictetus
When you are angry, know that you...
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Epictetus
What is yours is only your use of...
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Epicurus
Death is nothing to us.
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Epicurus
So long as we exist, death is not...
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Epicurus
It is not the man who has few...
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Epicurus
Not what we have but what we enjoy...
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Epicurus
The wealth demanded by nature is...
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Epicurus
It is impossible to live a pleasant...
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Epicurus
Of all the things which wisdom...
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Epicurus
He who is not satisfied with a...
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Epicurus
The greatest fruit of...
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Epicurus
Empty is the argument of the...
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Epicurus
We must not pretend to study...
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Epicurus
Let no one delay the study of...
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Epicurus
It is possible to provide security...
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Epicurus
Nothing is enough for the man to...
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Epicurus
The stable condition of well-being...
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Epicurus
Do not spoil what you have by...
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Epicurus
You may fetter my leg, but Zeus...
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Epicurus
Vain is the word of a philosopher...
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Epicurus
Live unnoticed.
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Epicurus
It is not so much our friends' help...
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Epicurus
The man who follows nature and not...
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Epicurus
Against other things it is possible...
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Epicurus
Pleasure is the beginning and end...
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Erich Fromm
Man is not born free. He is born...
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Erich Fromm
Spontaneity is not an impulse, not...
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Erich Fromm
Mature love is union under the...
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Erich Fromm
The average man of today is almost...
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Erich Fromm
Necrophilia is the passionate...
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Erich Fromm
Idolatry is not restricted to...
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Francis Bacon
Knowledge is power.
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Francis Bacon
Some books are to be tasted, others...
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Francis Bacon
Reading maketh a full man;...
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Francis Bacon
A prudent question is one-half of...
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Francis Bacon
Silence is the sleep that nourishes...
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Francis Bacon
He that hath wife and children hath...
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Francis Bacon
Truth is a naked and open daylight.
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Francis Bacon
Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
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Francis Bacon
Money is a great servant but a bad...
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Francis Bacon
Nature, to be commanded, must be...
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Francis Bacon
It is impossible to love and be...
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Francis Bacon
The job of the wise man is not to...
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Francis Bacon
Hope is a good breakfast but a bad...
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Francis Bacon
A wise man will make more...
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Francis Bacon
Suspicions amongst thoughts are...
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Francis Bacon
There is no excellent beauty that...
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Francis Bacon
In taking revenge, a man is but...
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Francis Bacon
The root of all superstition is...
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Friedrich Nietzsche
God is dead. God remains dead. And...
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Friedrich Nietzsche
What is good? All that heightens...
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Beware that, when fighting...
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Friedrich Nietzsche
You must have chaos within you to...
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Friedrich Nietzsche
My formula for greatness is amor...
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beauty is mysterious as well as...
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love in practice is a hard and...
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Suffering then is the origin of...
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
If God does not exist, everything...
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
The degree of civilization in a...
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The real is rational, and the...
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
World history is the progress of...
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
In freedom there is no chaos, but...
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Nothing great in the world has been...
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Contradiction is the root of all...
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George Bernard Shaw
The reasonable man adapts himself...
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George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without...
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George Bernard Shaw
All great truths begin as...
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George Bernard Shaw
Imagination is the beginning of...
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George Eliot
What greater thing is there for two...
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George Eliot
If we had a keen vision and feeling...
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George Eliot
The finite imagination can always...
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George Eliot
A woman's lot is made for her by...
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George Eliot
If we are to deal humanely with...
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George Washington
I cannot tell a lie.
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George Washington
It is better to offer no excuse...
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George Washington
Associate with men of good quality...
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George Washington
Labor to keep alive in your breast...
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George Washington
Government is not reason; it is not...
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George Washington
Few men have virtue to withstand...
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George Washington
Liberty, when it begins to take...
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George Washington
Nothing is more essential than that...
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George Washington
Observe good faith and justice...
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George Washington
'Tis substantially true that virtue...
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George Washington
Discipline is the soul of an army.
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George Washington
True friendship is a plant of slow...
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
We live in the best of all possible...
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Nothing takes place without...
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Monads have no windows through...
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
There is nothing without a reason.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Music is the pleasure the human...
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
The present is big with the future.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
It is unworthy of excellent men to...
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Every substance is like a complete...
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
To love is to find pleasure in the...
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
There are two kinds of truths:...
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Hannah Arendt
Totalitarianism is a new form of...
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Hannah Arendt
The most terrifying fact about the...
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Hannah Arendt
Action and speech are the two...
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Hannah Arendt
The public realm is constituted by...
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Hannah Arendt
Natality—the birth of new...
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Hannah Arendt
Thinking is the activity through...
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Hannah Arendt
The spirit of revolution is the...
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Hannah Arendt
Poverty and powerlessness are the...
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Hannah Arendt
Politics depends on the human...
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Hannah Arendt
In dark times, it falls to the...
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Henry David Thoreau
If a thousand men were not to pay...
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Henry David Thoreau
Under a government which imprisons...
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Henry David Thoreau
I went to the woods because I...
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Henry David Thoreau
Simplify, simplify, simplify.
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Henry David Thoreau
If a man does not keep pace with...
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Heraclitus
You cannot step twice into the same...
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Heraclitus
Everything flows.
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Heraclitus
The way up and the way down are one...
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Heraclitus
Character is fate.
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Heraclitus
War is the father of all and king...
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Heraclitus
The hidden harmony is better than...
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Heraclitus
Much learning does not teach...
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Heraclitus
It is hard to fight with desire;...
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Heraclitus
A man's character is his guardian...
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Heraclitus
The sun is new every day.
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Heraclitus
Nature loves to hide.
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Heraclitus
Big results require big ambitions.
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Heraclitus
The unlike is joined together, and...
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Heraclitus
Eyes are more exact witnesses than...
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Heraclitus
It is not possible to step twice in...
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Immanuel Kant
Act only according to that maxim...
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Immanuel Kant
Two things fill the mind with ever...
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Immanuel Kant
Sapere aude! Have courage to use...
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Immanuel Kant
Man must be disciplined, for he is...
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Immanuel Kant
Treat people as ends in themselves,...
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Immanuel Kant
Out of the crooked timber of...
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Immanuel Kant
Thoughts without content are empty,...
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Immanuel Kant
Enlightenment is man's emergence...
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Immanuel Kant
All our knowledge begins with the...
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Immanuel Kant
It is not necessary that while I...
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Immanuel Kant
He who is cruel to animals becomes...
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Immanuel Kant
Genius is the talent for producing...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man is born free, and everywhere he...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The general will is always right.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To renounce liberty is to renounce...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
People who know little are...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Patience is bitter, but its fruit...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man was born free, and he is...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The world of reality has its...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I have seen the vices of mankind...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Whoever blushes is already guilty;...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Liberty is not a fruit of every...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We are born weak, we need strength;...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Plants are shaped by cultivation,...
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Existence precedes essence....
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Bad faith is a lie we tell...
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Sartre distinguishes between...
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Man is anguished because he...
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Freedom is the very condition of...
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Consciousness is a being such that...
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Human existence is fundamentally...
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Man is free, but he has no excuse...
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Jean-Paul Sartre
The writer is a man who commits...
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Jeremy Bentham
It is the greatest happiness of the...
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Jeremy Bentham
Nature has placed mankind under two...
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Jeremy Bentham
Each person is to count for one and...
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Jeremy Bentham
Natural rights is simple nonsense:...
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Jeremy Bentham
It is the duty of government to...
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever you can do or dream you...
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowing is not enough; we must...
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Seize the day with both hands.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Live your life as though everything...
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is nothing to which we cling...
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John Locke
No man's knowledge here can go...
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John Locke
The mind is furnished with ideas by...
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John Locke
Let us then suppose the mind to be,...
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John Locke
The state of nature has a law of...
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John Locke
Government has no other end but the...
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John Locke
Where there is no law, there is no...
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John Locke
The end of law is not to abolish or...
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John Locke
New opinions are always suspected,...
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John Locke
Reading furnishes the mind only...
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John Locke
Education begins the gentleman, but...
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John Locke
Parents wonder why the streams are...
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John Locke
As the state of health is what...
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John Stuart Mill
The only purpose for which power...
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John Stuart Mill
The greatest happiness principle...
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John Stuart Mill
It is better to be Socrates...
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John Stuart Mill
Individuality is the same thing...
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John Stuart Mill
If all mankind minus one were of...
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Karl Marx
Workers of the world, unite! You...
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Karl Marx
It is not the consciousness of men...
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Karl Marx
Hegel remarks somewhere that all...
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Karl Marx
Religion is the opium of the people.
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Karl Marx
The philosophers have only...
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Karl Popper
A theory which is not refutable by...
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Karl Popper
The idea of freedom and the idea of...
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Karl Popper
Science does not rest on a solid...
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Karl Popper
Growth of knowledge consists in the...
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Karl Popper
Truth is like an asymptotic ideal...
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Karl Popper
Totalitarianism is the attempt to...
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Leo Tolstoy
All happy families are alike; each...
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Leo Tolstoy
Forgiveness is the attribute of the...
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Leo Tolstoy
Man cannot possess anything as long...
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Leo Tolstoy
Art is the transmission from the...
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Leo Tolstoy
Truth is like a lion; you don't...
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof...
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Think of the tools in a toolbox:...
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Suppose I say I will call the...
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof...
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
A philosophical problem has the...
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Grammar tells us what kind of...
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Mahatma Gandhi
If we could change ourselves, the...
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Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is the first article of...
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Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is...
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Mahatma Gandhi
Truth never damages a cause that is...
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Mahatma Gandhi
The pursuit of truth does not...
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Mahatma Gandhi
An ounce of practice is worth more...
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Mahatma Gandhi
I object to violence because when...
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Mahatma Gandhi
It is unwise to be too sure of...
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Mahatma Gandhi
The greatness of a nation and its...
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Mahatma Gandhi
To call woman the weaker sex is a...
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Mahatma Gandhi
I have nothing new to teach the...
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Mahatma Gandhi
An eye for an eye only ends up...
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Mahatma Gandhi
Live as if you were to die...
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Maimonides
Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not...
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Maimonides
The risk of a wrong decision is...
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Maimonides
Give a man a fish and you feed him...
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Maimonides
The highest form of charity is to...
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Maimonides
A single act of kindness throws out...
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Maimonides
The knowledge of God cannot be...
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Maimonides
Man's power of apprehension is too...
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Maimonides
Everyone is obligated to see...
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Maimonides
Repentance and the Day of Atonement...
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Maimonides
Silence is a fence for wisdom.
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Maimonides
The risk of a soul is more grievous...
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Marcus Aurelius
The impediment to action advances...
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Marcus Aurelius
Confine thyself to the present.
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Marcus Aurelius
If thou art pained by any external...
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Marcus Aurelius
Waste no more time arguing about...
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Marcus Aurelius
You have power over your mind —...
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Marcus Aurelius
The best revenge is to be unlike...
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Marcus Aurelius
Everything we hear is an opinion,...
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Marcus Aurelius
Very little is needed to make a...
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Marcus Aurelius
Dig within. Within is the...
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Marcus Aurelius
Loss is nothing else but change,...
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Marcus Aurelius
The universe is change; our life is...
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Marcus Aurelius
When you arise in the morning,...
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Marcus Aurelius
How much more grievous are the...
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Marcus Aurelius
He who lives in harmony with...
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Marcus Aurelius
Accept the things to which fate...
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Marcus Aurelius
The universe is transformation;...
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Marcus Aurelius
Never let the future disturb you....
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Marcus Aurelius
Nowhere can a man find a quieter or...
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Marcus Aurelius
It is not death that a man should...
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Marcus Aurelius
Reject your sense of injury and the...
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Marcus Aurelius
Time is a sort of river of passing...
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Marcus Aurelius
Ambition means tying your...
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Marcus Aurelius
The happiness of your life depends...
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Marcus Aurelius
Our life is what our thoughts make...
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Marcus Aurelius
Do every act of your life as if it...
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Marcus Aurelius
Adapt yourself to the things among...
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Marcus Aurelius
No longer talk about what kind of...
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Marcus Aurelius
If it is not right, do not do it;...
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Marcus Aurelius
You have power over your mind —...
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Marcus Aurelius
The impediment to action advances...
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Marcus Aurelius
The happiness of your life depends...
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Marcus Aurelius
Remember that man lives in the...
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Marcus Aurelius
Do every act of your life as though...
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Marcus Aurelius
The best revenge is not to be like...
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Marcus Aurelius
A man's worth is no greater than...
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Marcus Aurelius
Accept whatever comes to you woven...
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Marcus Aurelius
Do every act of your life as though...
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Marcus Aurelius
The things that are not good for...
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Marcus Aurelius
Everything is change.
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Marcus Aurelius
The universe is change: life is...
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Marcus Aurelius
You could leave life right now....
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Marcus Aurelius
We are made for cooperation, like...
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Marcus Aurelius
When you wake up in the morning,...
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Marcus Aurelius
People who are animated by the same...
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Marcus Aurelius
It is not death that a man should...
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Marcus Aurelius
The soul becomes dyed with the...
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Marcus Aurelius
Do not act as if you had ten...
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Marcus Aurelius
The happiness of your life depends...
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Mark Twain
All you need in this life is...
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Mark Twain
There warn't no home like a raft,...
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Mark Twain
Truth is stranger than fiction, but...
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Mark Twain
When in doubt tell the truth.
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Martin Heidegger
Dasein is an entity which does not...
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Martin Heidegger
The 'they-self' of Dasein is the...
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Martin Heidegger
Modern technology is a means to an...
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Martin Heidegger
Dasein is 'thrown' into a world it...
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Martin Heidegger
Language is the house of being....
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Martin Heidegger
Being-towards-death is Dasein's own...
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Martin Heidegger
Poetically, man dwells on this...
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Martin Heidegger
The Nothing nothings. It is the...
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Martin Heidegger
The most thought-provoking thing in...
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Mary Wollstonecraft
I do not wish women to have power...
-
Mary Wollstonecraft
Strengthen the female mind by...
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Mary Wollstonecraft
It is justice, not charity, that is...
-
Mary Wollstonecraft
Taught from infancy that beauty is...
-
Mary Wollstonecraft
Virtue can only flourish among...
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Mary Wollstonecraft
I love man as my fellow; but his...
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Make them free, and they will...
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Genius will educate itself.
-
Mary Wollstonecraft
Every art and profession... has...
-
Mary Wollstonecraft
The mind that has never been...
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Michel de Montaigne
The greatest thing in the world is...
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Michel de Montaigne
I do not portray being: I portray...
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Michel de Montaigne
The most certain sign of wisdom is...
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Michel de Montaigne
My life has been full of terrible...
-
Michel de Montaigne
There is no man so good, who, were...
-
Michel de Montaigne
I quote others only the better to...
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Michel de Montaigne
He who fears he shall suffer,...
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Michel de Montaigne
Nothing is so firmly believed as...
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Michel de Montaigne
The value of life lies not in the...
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Michel de Montaigne
A man who fears suffering is...
-
Michel de Montaigne
Obsession is the wellspring of...
-
Michel de Montaigne
Nature never gave us anything so...
-
Michel de Montaigne
The soul which has no fixed goal...
-
Michel de Montaigne
Saying is one thing, doing is...
-
Michel de Montaigne
Wonder is the foundation of all...
-
Michel de Montaigne
I have never seen a greater monster...
-
Michel de Montaigne
Man is certainly stark mad; he...
-
Michel de Montaigne
Every man calls barbarism whatever...
-
Miguel de Cervantes
The truth may be bent, but not...
-
Miguel de Cervantes
When life itself seems lunatic, who...
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Miguel de Cervantes
Take care of the sense and the...
-
Miguel de Cervantes
Freedom is one of the most precious...
-
Miguel de Cervantes
Truth has such a face and such a...
-
Muhammad
Whoever travels a path in search of...
-
Muhammad
The angels lower their wings in...
-
Muhammad
All deeds are judged by intention,...
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Muhammad
The strong man is not he who...
-
Muhammad
The Muslim is the one from whose...
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Muhammad
The best among you are those who...
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Muhammad
Truthfulness leads to...
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Muhammad
O Messenger of Allah! I want to go...
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Muhammad
Modesty is a branch of faith.
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Muhammad
Even a good word is a charity.
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Muhammad
The merciful will be shown mercy by...
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Muhammad
Fasting is a shield (from sin).
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Muhammad
He who thanks is not like he who...
-
Muhammad
The best charity is that given when...
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Muhammad
The one who looks after a widow or...
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Muhammad
A woman entered the (hell) fire...
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Muhammad
When a son of Adam dies, his acts...
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Muhammad
Oppression will become a darkness...
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Muhammad
No one is a proper Muslim until he...
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Muhammad
Beware of suspicion, for suspicion...
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Muhammad
Verily, Allah has prescribed...
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Muhammad
The best prayer after the...
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Muhammad
My Lord, increase me in knowledge.
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Muhammad
Every child is born in a state of...
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Muhammad
The greatest reward belongs to the...
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Muhammad
The learned are the heirs of the...
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Muhammad
The five prayers, and from one...
-
Muhammad
People do not gather in the houses...
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Muhammad
People are like mines of gold and...
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Muhammad
The best jihad is a word of justice...
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Muhammad
The best of you are those who are...
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Muhammad
Gabriel kept on commending the...
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Muhammad
Envy is not justified except in two...
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Muhammad
There are no days more virtuous...
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Muhammad
Convey from me, even if it is one...
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Muhammad
The companion and the path they...
-
Niccolò Machiavelli
It is better to be feared than...
-
Niccolò Machiavelli
The end justifies the means.
-
Niccolò Machiavelli
Everyone sees what you appear to...
-
Niccolò Machiavelli
There is nothing more difficult to...
-
Niccolò Machiavelli
A prince never lacks legitimate...
-
Niccolò Machiavelli
Men judge generally more by the eye...
-
Niccolò Machiavelli
War is just when it is necessary.
-
Niccolò Machiavelli
Whosoever desires constant success...
-
Niccolò Machiavelli
The wise man does at once what the...
-
Niccolò Machiavelli
Never was anything great achieved...
-
Niccolò Machiavelli
Politics have no relation to morals.
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Niccolò Machiavelli
It is not titles that honor men,...
-
Niccolò Machiavelli
Men rise from one ambition to...
-
Niccolò Machiavelli
Where the willingness is great, the...
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Niccolò Machiavelli
The main foundations of every state...
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Plato
The knowledge of the good is the...
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Plato
The Good is beyond being, and it...
-
Plato
The practice of philosophy is a...
-
Plato
All learning is but recollection.
-
Plato
True opinion is no less useful than...
-
Plato
Until philosophers take control of...
-
Plato
Philosophy is the love of wisdom.
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Plato
Know thyself.
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Plato
Justice is the virtue that makes a...
-
Plato
Temperance is the order and harmony...
-
Plato
The philosopher is a lover of...
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Plato
At the touch of love, everyone...
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Plato
Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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Plato
Necessity is the mother of...
-
Plato
Ignorance, the root and stem of all...
-
Plato
The direction in which education...
-
Plato
Good people do not need laws to...
-
Plato
Music gives soul to the universe,...
-
Plato
We can easily forgive a child who...
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Plato
Wise men speak because they have...
-
Plato
Ideas are the source of all things.
-
Plato
No human thing is of serious...
-
Plato
He was a wise man who invented the...
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Plato
Reality is created by the mind; we...
-
Plato
The beginning is the most important...
-
Plato
Astronomy compels the soul to look...
-
Plato
Democracy passes into despotism.
-
Plato
The state in which the rulers are...
-
Plato
Excess of liberty, whether it lies...
-
Plato
Poets utter great and wise things...
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Plato
He, O men of Athens, is wise who...
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Plato
The greatest wealth is to live...
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Plato
There are two things a person...
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Plato
One of the penalties for refusing...
-
Plato
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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Plato
The knowledge of the good is the...
-
Plato
The Good is beyond being, and it...
-
Plato
The practice of philosophy is a...
-
Plato
All learning is but recollection.
-
Plato
True opinion is no less useful than...
-
Plato
Until philosophers take control of...
-
Plato
Philosophy is the love of wisdom.
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Plato
Know thyself.
-
Plato
Justice is the virtue that makes a...
-
Plato
Temperance is the order and harmony...
-
Plato
The philosopher is a lover of...
-
Plato
Education is not what some people...
-
Plato
Education is the art of directing...
-
Plato
Ignorance is the root and stem of...
-
Plato
The greatest victory of all is the...
-
Plato
The first and greatest victory is...
-
Plato
The lover of wisdom is the lover of...
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Plato
The body is a prison for the soul.
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Plato
Beauty itself, which is always the...
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Plato
The soul is immortal.
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Plotinus
The Soul takes on ugliness when it...
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Plotinus
Beauty is, more than anything else,...
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Plotinus
The One is all things and no thing.
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Plotinus
Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Plotinus
Never did eye see the sun unless it...
-
Plotinus
All that exists desires the Good.
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Plotinus
There is no place where God is not.
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Plotinus
Real beauty exists first in the...
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Plotinus
Actions are said to be in our power...
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Plotinus
Every soul is a Venus.
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Plotinus
Cut away everything.
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Plotinus
Wisdom is not talk but a state of...
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Plotinus
The Intellectual Kingdom is...
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Plotinus
This, no doubt, is what the Sages...
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Plotinus
To go towards it is to turn towards...
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Plotinus
Nothing that has real being can...
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Plutarch
The mind is not a vessel to be...
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Plutarch
Character is simply habit long...
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Plutarch
It is indeed a desirable thing to...
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Plutarch
Painting is silent poetry, and...
-
Plutarch
Know how to listen, and you will...
-
Plutarch
The wisest men follow their own...
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Plutarch
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
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Plutarch
Courage stands halfway between...
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Plutarch
The whole life of man is but a...
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Plutarch
Persistent people begin their...
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Plutarch
To find fault is easy; to do better...
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Plutarch
An imbalance between rich and poor...
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Plutarch
Envy indeed dwells with the mean of...
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Plutarch
In practical life character is the...
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Plutarch
Nothing enduring can be built on...
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Plutarch
The true way to render ourselves...
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Plutarch
It is part of a good man to do...
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Plutarch
A little spark of ill-spoken word...
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Plutarch
That which is used, develops. That...
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Plutarch
Most people, when they are...
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Pythagoras
Number is the ruler of forms and...
-
Pythagoras
There is geometry in the humming of...
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Pythagoras
Silence is better than unmeaning...
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Pythagoras
Above all things, reverence...
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Pythagoras
No man is free who cannot command...
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Pythagoras
Educate the children and it won't...
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Pythagoras
As long as men massacre animals,...
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Pythagoras
Friends are as companions on a...
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Pythagoras
In anger we should refrain both...
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Pythagoras
Rest satisfied with doing well, and...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoso would be a man must be a...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust thyself. Whoso would be a man...
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind us and what lies...
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mind of this country teaches...
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is properly no history; only...
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish consistency is the...
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every violation of truth is not...
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though we travel the world over to...
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate quotations. Tell me what you...
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is it so bad, then, to be...
-
René Descartes
I think, therefore I am.
-
René Descartes
Except our own thoughts, there is...
-
René Descartes
Good sense is of all things in the...
-
René Descartes
The reading of all good books is...
-
René Descartes
It is not enough to have a good...
-
René Descartes
Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
-
René Descartes
Divide each difficulty into as many...
-
René Descartes
I have found no better way of...
-
René Descartes
Conquer yourself rather than the...
-
René Descartes
Common sense is the best...
-
René Descartes
It is only prudent never to place...
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René Descartes
The senses deceive from time to...
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René Descartes
I am, I exist — this is certain.
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René Descartes
Each problem that I solved became a...
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Robert Louis Stevenson
To travel hopefully is a better...
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Robert Louis Stevenson
If I could rightly be said to fall,...
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Robert Louis Stevenson
There are men and classes of men...
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Seneca
We suffer more often in imagination...
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Seneca
There are more things, Lucilius,...
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Seneca
What I advise you to do is, not to...
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Seneca
Nothing is ours, except time.
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Seneca
Every man is as unhappy as he has...
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Seneca
It is not the man who has too...
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Seneca
Begin at once to live, and count...
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Seneca
As is a tale, so is life: not how...
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Seneca
Luck is what happens when...
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Seneca
He who is brave is free.
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Seneca
Anger, if not restrained, is...
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Seneca
While we wait for life, life passes.
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Seneca
It is not that we have a short time...
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Seneca
Life is long if you know how to use...
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Seneca
You act like mortals in all that...
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Seneca
The greatest obstacle to living is...
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Seneca
No man is crushed by misfortune...
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Seneca
Difficulties strengthen the mind,...
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Seneca
Fire is the test of gold;...
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Seneca
A gem cannot be polished without...
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Seneca
We are more often frightened than...
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Seneca
It is a rough road that leads to...
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Seneca
Sometimes even to live is an act of...
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Seneca
Religion is regarded by the common...
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Seneca
All cruelty springs from weakness.
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Seneca
The whole future lies in...
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Seneca
As long as you live, keep learning...
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Seneca
It is quality rather than quantity...
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Seneca
A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Seneca
Every new beginning comes from some...
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Seneca
It is not that we have a short time...
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Seneca
Nothing, Lucilius, is ours, except...
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Seneca
We suffer more often in imagination...
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Seneca
Begin at once to live, and count...
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Seneca
Life is long enough, and a...
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Seneca
The largest portion of life passes...
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Seneca
No man can say that he has not...
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Seneca
You act like mortals in all that...
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Seneca
Everyone agrees that no one can...
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Seneca
Of all those who have leisure, only...
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Seneca
The wise man will allow himself no...
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Seneca
He who suffers before it is...
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Seneca
It is not because things are...
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Seneca
Fire is the test of gold;...
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Seneca
No man is more unhappy than he who...
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Seneca
A great man is always willing to be...
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Seneca
It is not the man who has too...
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Seneca
He who is contented is rich.
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Seneca
A friend should be sought for the...
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Seneca
He who regards himself as a friend...
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Seneca
As long as you live, keep learning...
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Seneca
Anger, if not restrained, is...
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Seneca
The greatest remedy for anger is...
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Seneca
Anger is, as it were, a brief...
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Seneca
Virtue is sufficient for happiness.
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Seneca
Philosophy is good advice.
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Seneca
Philosophy is not a subject for the...
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Seneca
Death is everywhere.
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Seneca
Death is the law, not a punishment.
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Seneca
Fate leads the willing, and drags...
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Seneca
Difficulties strengthen the mind,...
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Seneca
He who has learned how to die has...
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Seneca
The whole of life is a school for...
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Seneca
It is not the man who has little,...
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Seneca
I never bring back from a journey...
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Seneca
You should change your mind, not...
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Seneca
The greatest obstacle to living is...
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Seneca
While we are postponing, life...
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Seneca
The mind is never satisfied with...
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Seneca
Associate with those who will make...
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Seneca
The companionship of the crowd is...
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Seneca
No one can keep his character from...
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Seneca
It is more civilized to make fun of...
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Seneca
Where there is hope, there is fear.
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Seneca
They are both dependent upon...
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Seneca
We are more often frightened than...
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Seneca
No man can be good by chance.
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Seneca
Difficult things become easy...
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Seneca
The mind that is anxious about...
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Seneca
He who is brave is free.
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Seneca
We learn not for school but for...
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Seneca
It takes the whole of life to learn...
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Seneca
Let us say to ourselves with great...
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Seneca
Philosophy teaches us to act, not...
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Seneca
The good man is he who is content...
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Seneca
Virtue does not need fortune.
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Seneca
No one knows what he can do until...
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Seneca
Fire tests gold, suffering tests...
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Seneca
We are born only once, but we die...
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Seneca
Death is the equalizer of all...
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Seneca
The opinion of the crowd is a bad...
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Seneca
It is not the opinion of the crowd...
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Seneca
He who has learned to obey himself...
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Seneca
The greatest empire is to be master...
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Seneca
He who receives a benefit with...
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Seneca
The intention of the giver is what...
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Seneca
No one can live happily who has...
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Seneca
Man is a sacred thing to man.
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Seneca
Let us help one another; we were...
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Seneca
Nature produced us related to one...
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Seneca
Anger is an avenger of injury.
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Seneca
The greatest remedy for anger is...
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Seneca
The first and most important step...
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Seneca
We are not in the power of Fortune,...
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Seneca
He who is satisfied with little has...
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Seneca
If you wish to be rich, do not add...
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Seneca
A simple life is a happy life.
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Seneca
Retirement without literature is...
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Seneca
Read always good authors, and if at...
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Seneca
Withdraw into yourself as much as...
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Seneca
The mind should be kept in training...
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Seneca
When the day has been spent, I...
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Seneca
I examine the whole of my day and...
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Seneca
Nothing will ever please me unless...
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Seneca
Old age is an incurable disease,...
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Seneca
It is not that life is short, but...
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Seneca
Life is long if you know how to use...
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Seneca
Nothing is so certain as that we...
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Seneca
The busy man is one who has no time...
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Seneca
The only people who are really at...
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Seneca
Philosophy gives us the possibility...
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Seneca
He who is prepared to die is...
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Seneca
Death is the only thing that is...
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Seneca
There are more things, Lucilius,...
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Seneca
No tree becomes deeply rooted and...
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Seneca
God has a good opinion of us when...
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Seneca
A brave man is not he who does not...
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Seneca
The bravest sight in the world is...
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Seneca
Virtue cannot be proved without...
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Seneca
Difficulties are the tests of...
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Seneca
No one can live happily who has...
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Seneca
Wherever there is a human being,...
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Seneca
Treat your inferiors in the way in...
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Seneca
Remember that he whom you call your...
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Seneca
Show kindness to all, not because...
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Seneca
A benefit consists not in what is...
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Seneca
The man who has received a benefit...
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Seneca
A man should live for another, if...
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Seneca
No one can live happily who has...
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Seneca
A friend is a person whom you can...
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Seneca
The man who is everywhere is...
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Seneca
A man who spends all his time...
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Seneca
Your mind is what makes you unhappy.
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Seneca
You should change your mind, not...
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Seneca
You carry your own faults with you...
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Seneca
The mind is the master of itself.
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Seneca
Wisdom does not show itself in...
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Seneca
The philosopher must be a man who...
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Seneca
The philosopher is one who lives...
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Seneca
Let us follow nature; it is a...
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Seneca
The happy life is one which is in...
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Seneca
Nature is the best guide.
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Seneca
Reason is the ruler of the passions.
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Seneca
Anger is contrary to nature, and...
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Seneca
Anger is a brief madness.
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Seneca
Reason wants to give a decision...
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Seneca
The wise man will never forgive a...
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Seneca
The best remedy for anger is delay.
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Seneca
The mind that is at peace is not...
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Seneca
Fortune has a way of changing, and...
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Seneca
Let us willingly follow where...
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Seneca
Fate leads the willing and drags...
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Seneca
No tree is strong enough to stand...
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Seneca
Prosperity is the lot of the common...
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Seneca
God hardens, reviews, and...
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Seneca
A brave man struggling with...
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Seneca
Virtue is strengthened by...
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Seneca
The more a man is tested, the more...
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Seneca
He who needs riches least enjoys...
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Seneca
The wise man is not the slave of...
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Seneca
Set aside a certain number of days,...
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Seneca
Poverty, reduced to its proper...
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Seneca
Set a limit to your desires.
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Seneca
He who is contented with what he...
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Seneca
Luxury is not the sign of a rich...
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Seneca
He who is not satisfied with a...
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Seneca
Every day is a complete life.
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Seneca
Count each separate day as a...
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Seneca
Begin at once to live.
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Seneca
Certain moments are torn from us,...
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Seneca
The most disgraceful kind of loss,...
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Seneca
What man can you show me who places...
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Seneca
Who understands that he is dying...
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Seneca
We do not receive a short life, but...
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Seneca
Time is the one thing which even a...
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Seneca
Philosophy is not an occupation for...
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Seneca
Philosophy forms and moulds the...
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Seneca
Philosophy is a guide to life.
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Seneca
Associate with those who will make...
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Seneca
The greatest lesson is to learn by...
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Seneca
Let us teach by our lives.
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Seneca
It is not age that makes a man wise.
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Seneca
The man who has begun to make...
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Seneca
Every day make yourself a little...
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Seneca
I am becoming better every day.
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Seneca
The good man is always making...
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Seneca
No one is born wise.
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Seneca
Wisdom is acquired by long practice.
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Seneca
A good character is not formed in a...
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Seneca
The greatest remedy for anger is...
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Seneca
Reason is stronger than anger.
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Seneca
The wise man is not ruled by...
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Seneca
Anger destroys whatever it touches.
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Seneca
Anger is not useful for anything.
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Seneca
The wise man will be calm and...
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Seneca
Pain is neither good nor bad.
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Seneca
Poverty is not in want of riches,...
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Seneca
Riches are not necessary for a...
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Seneca
Fortune is not to be feared.
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Seneca
Death is nothing to us.
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Seneca
He who fears death will never do...
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Seneca
The man who is not afraid of death...
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Seneca
While we wait for life, life passes.
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Seneca
Put off nothing; live today.
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Seneca
It is quality rather than quantity...
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Seneca
The good man measures himself by...
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Seneca
Virtue is sufficient for itself.
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Seneca
The happy life is the life that is...
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Seneca
Let us follow nature.
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Seneca
The greatest good is a mind that...
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Seneca
Freedom is the greatest good.
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Seneca
A free mind is one that is not...
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Seneca
The mind should be fortified...
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Seneca
The wise man is content with...
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Seneca
The wise man can live without a...
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Seneca
The joy of a friend is our own joy.
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Seneca
Treat your friend as if he were...
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Seneca
After friendship is formed you must...
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Seneca
Nature made us relatives by giving...
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Seneca
Nature produced us as relatives,...
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Seneca
We were born for mutual assistance.
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Seneca
Wherever there is a human being,...
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Seneca
Man is a sacred thing to man.
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Seneca
Let us respect one another.
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Seneca
A benefit is not a thing, but the...
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Seneca
He who receives a benefit with...
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Seneca
The benefit consists in the good...
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Seneca
Anger is the enemy of reason.
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Seneca
Reason wishes to give a decision...
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Seneca
Let the first impulse of anger be...
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Seneca
The strongest man is he who...
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Seneca
Anger is a sign of weakness.
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Seneca
The wise man is always calm and...
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Seneca
The wise man is free from anger.
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Seneca
He who is able to govern himself is...
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Seneca
Virtue is always consistent with...
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Seneca
The wise man is never disturbed.
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Seneca
The wise man is superior to fortune.
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Seneca
A happy life is one which is in...
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Seneca
The happy life depends upon virtue.
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Seneca
Virtue is the only good.
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Seneca
External things are not in our...
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Seneca
Fortune has no power over the mind.
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Seneca
A mind that is free from fear is...
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Seneca
Fear is evidence of a weak mind.
-
Seneca
A man becomes stronger through the...
-
Seneca
Adversity is the occasion for...
-
Seneca
Fortune tests the brave.
-
Seneca
The brave man struggles against...
-
Seneca
Fate leads the willing and drags...
-
Seneca
Let us willingly follow necessity.
-
Seneca
The wise man follows nature.
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Seneca
Wisdom is the freedom of the mind.
-
Seneca
Philosophy makes us free.
-
Seneca
The greatest empire is to command...
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Seneca
Live for another if you wish to...
-
Seneca
Man is sacred to man.
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Seneca
We were born for mutual assistance.
-
Seneca
Wherever there is a human being,...
-
Seneca
Friendship always treats everyone...
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Seneca
Choose a friend slowly, but when...
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Seneca
After friendship is formed you must...
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Seneca
Before friendship is formed you...
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Seneca
Without a friend, life is not worth...
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Seneca
The sorrow of a friend is our own...
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Seneca
I scrutinize my entire day and go...
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Seneca
I hide nothing from myself; I pass...
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Seneca
I have examined my whole day.
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Seneca
The first step toward becoming...
-
Seneca
The first step toward getting rid...
-
Seneca
The first step is to be willing to...
-
Seneca
As long as you live, keep learning...
-
Seneca
It takes the whole of life to learn...
-
Seneca
It takes the whole of life to learn...
-
Seneca
Life is a school for dying.
-
Seneca
No age is too late for learning.
-
Seneca
Philosophy is not merely words, but...
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Seneca
The philosopher should show by his...
-
Seneca
Let us teach by our lives.
-
Seneca
Example is the best teacher.
-
Seneca
Virtue is proved by action.
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Seneca
A man's character is shown by his...
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Seneca
The mind is coloured by the things...
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Seneca
Association with the crowd is...
-
Seneca
Associate with those who will make...
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Seneca
Bad company corrupts even a good...
-
Seneca
Read always good authors, and if at...
-
Seneca
You should always be reading a few...
-
Seneca
You should linger among a limited...
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Seneca
The mind should be given time to...
-
Seneca
We should take in what we read as...
-
Seneca
What you have learned becomes your...
-
Seneca
The purpose of learning is not to...
-
Seneca
Philosophy gives us the means of...
-
Seneca
Wisdom is the greatest good of the...
-
Seneca
Reason is the distinctive good of...
-
Seneca
Virtue is the perfection of reason.
-
Seneca
A happy life is one that is in...
-
Seneca
Reason should be the guide of life.
-
Seneca
Virtue is always consistent and...
-
Seneca
The good is sufficient in itself.
-
Seneca
The happy man is sufficient unto...
-
Seneca
The wise man needs friends, not...
-
Seneca
Friendship is desirable for its own...
-
Seneca
Friendship makes all things common.
-
Seneca
A life without friends is not worth...
-
Seneca
We are members of one great body.
-
Seneca
Nature has made us for mutual...
-
Seneca
Man is a sacred thing to man.
-
Seneca
Wherever there is a human being,...
-
Seneca
Remember that he whom you call your...
-
Seneca
He is your fellow-slave, if you...
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Seneca
Live with your inferior as you...
-
Seneca
No one is born a slave.
-
Seneca
All men have the same origin.
-
Seneca
Nobility of birth is not a virtue.
-
Seneca
The true nobility is the nobility...
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Seneca
Virtue is open to all.
-
Seneca
It is not birth but virtue that...
-
Seneca
Nature gives us sufficient...
-
Seneca
Nature requires little.
-
Seneca
The natural needs are small; the...
-
Seneca
Luxury has increased our desires,...
-
Seneca
Riches are a burden to those who do...
-
Seneca
The wise man possesses riches, but...
-
Seneca
Riches are neither good nor bad.
-
Seneca
Poverty is neither good nor bad.
-
Seneca
Health is not the good, nor...
-
Seneca
Pain is not the evil.
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Seneca
Death is not an evil.
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Seneca
Only virtue is good.
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Seneca
Only vice is evil.
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Seneca
Virtue is independent of fortune.
-
Seneca
Happiness does not depend on...
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Seneca
The good is in the mind.
-
Seneca
It is the mind that makes us rich...
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Seneca
The mind should be stronger than...
-
Seneca
The greatest wealth is a contented...
-
Seneca
He who is contented is rich.
-
Seneca
He who craves more is poor.
-
Seneca
The man who has few desires is rich.
-
Seneca
A simple life is the happiest life.
-
Seneca
Live simply, and you will have...
-
Seneca
Fear follows hope, and hope follows...
-
Seneca
If you would have no fear, desire...
-
Seneca
We suffer more often in imagination...
-
Seneca
There are more things likely to...
-
Seneca
We are more often frightened than...
-
Seneca
He who suffers before it is...
-
Seneca
The mind that is anxious about...
-
Seneca
The greatest obstacle to living is...
-
Seneca
Expectancy depends upon tomorrow...
-
Seneca
Tomorrow is the great thief of...
-
Seneca
Life is slipping away while we are...
-
Seneca
We are not given a short life, but...
-
Seneca
The wise man will not waste time.
-
Seneca
Only those who devote themselves to...
-
Seneca
The wise man lives the whole length...
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Seneca
Philosophy makes us contemporaries...
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Seneca
The lives of the greatest men are...
-
Seneca
We can associate with Socrates, and...
-
Seneca
He who learns how to die unlearns...
-
Seneca
Death makes all men equal.
-
Seneca
Death is a law of nature.
-
Seneca
We are born to die.
-
Seneca
Death is the law of life.
-
Seneca
He who has learned how to die has...
-
Seneca
Death is not an evil.
-
Seneca
He who fears death will never do...
-
Seneca
The man who is brave is free.
-
Seneca
He who is not afraid of death is...
-
Seneca
Fear is slavery.
-
Seneca
Courage is freedom from fear.
-
Seneca
A brave man is strengthened by...
-
Seneca
Adversity teaches a man what he is.
-
Seneca
Fortune gives the brave a chance to...
-
Seneca
No tree becomes strong unless many...
-
Seneca
The great man struggles against...
-
Seneca
Great souls are strengthened by...
-
Seneca
Virtue needs no fortune, but...
-
Seneca
Adversity is training for the soul.
-
Seneca
No one knows his strength until he...
-
Seneca
Fortune reveals the character of a...
-
Seneca
A good man is not made by good...
-
Seneca
Virtue is strengthened by exercise.
-
Seneca
Virtue becomes strong through...
-
Seneca
Make yourself better every day.
-
Seneca
He who has begun to make progress...
-
Seneca
Virtue does not come suddenly.
-
Seneca
Character is formed by repeated...
-
Seneca
Our habits form our character.
-
Seneca
The mind takes its character from...
-
Seneca
Our character is influenced by the...
-
Seneca
A man can learn virtue more easily...
-
Seneca
The best teaching is the example of...
-
Seneca
Philosophy should be lived, not...
-
Seneca
The wise man proves his wisdom by...
-
Seneca
A good life is the result of good...
-
Seneca
Wisdom is practical knowledge.
-
Seneca
Reason is perfected through...
-
Seneca
Philosophy should mould the...
-
Seneca
The wise man knows how to live.
-
Seneca
To know how to live is the greatest...
-
Seneca
The purpose of philosophy is to...
-
Seneca
Wisdom teaches us to live according...
-
Seneca
To live according to nature is to...
-
Seneca
Nature and reason are the guides of...
-
Seneca
The good life follows nature.
-
Seneca
Happiness consists in living...
-
Seneca
Virtue is in agreement with nature.
-
Seneca
The natural life is the rational...
-
Seneca
A rational life is a happy life.
-
Seneca
The greatest good is a mind in...
-
Simone de Beauvoir
One is not born, but rather...
-
Simone de Beauvoir
Woman is defined in relation to...
-
Simone de Beauvoir
My freedom is tied to that of...
-
Simone de Beauvoir
Ethics is the support of ambiguity....
-
Simone de Beauvoir
In love, the woman often loses her...
-
Simone de Beauvoir
Woman is imprisoned in...
-
Simone de Beauvoir
Woman must be recognized as a moral...
-
Simone de Beauvoir
One cannot completely understand...
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Simone de Beauvoir
To be free is not to possess...
-
Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth...
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Socrates
I know that I know nothing.
-
Socrates
What I do not know I do not think I...
-
Socrates
There is no one wiser than Socrates.
-
Socrates
To fear death, gentlemen, is no...
-
Socrates
I shall obey God rather than you.
-
Socrates
No evil can happen to a good man,...
-
Socrates
The hour of departure has arrived,...
-
Socrates
It is not living that matters, but...
-
Socrates
One must never do wrong in return,...
-
Socrates
Is it not disgraceful that you...
-
Socrates
Wonder is the feeling of a...
-
Socrates
The life which is unexamined is not...
-
Socrates
Virtue is knowledge.
-
Socrates
Doing wrong is in every case worse...
-
Socrates
It is never right to do wrong or to...
-
Socrates
I am that gadfly which God has...
-
Socrates
The greatest good of man is daily...
-
Socrates
False words are not only evil in...
-
Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
-
Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation...
-
Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything. I...
-
Socrates
Strong minds discuss ideas, average...
-
Socrates
By all means marry. If you get a...
-
Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing...
-
Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
-
Socrates
Employ your time in improving...
-
Socrates
He is richest who is content with...
-
Socrates
I am wiser than this man; for...
-
Socrates
What I do not know I do not think I...
-
Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth...
-
Socrates
To talk every day about virtue and...
-
Socrates
There is no one wiser than Socrates.
-
Socrates
You will find that I have no other...
-
Socrates
I tell you that wealth does not...
-
Socrates
To fear death, gentlemen, is no...
-
Socrates
I shall obey God rather than you,...
-
Socrates
No evil can happen to a good man,...
-
Socrates
I shall obey God rather than you.
-
Socrates
I shall never cease examining both...
-
Socrates
I do not care for money at all.
-
Socrates
I care for nothing except that what...
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Socrates
I shall follow the truth wherever...
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Socrates
It is not difficult to escape...
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Socrates
The most important thing is not...
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Socrates
We ought not to retaliate or render...
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Socrates
Doing wrong is in every case worse...
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Socrates
The just man is happy, and the...
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Socrates
Virtue is knowledge.
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Socrates
Courage is a kind of wisdom.
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Socrates
The life of injustice is not worth...
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Socrates
Rhetoric is the counterpart of...
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Socrates
The true art of politics is...
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Søren Kierkegaard
Truth is subjectivity; subjectivity...
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Søren Kierkegaard
Faith is the passion of freedom,...
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Søren Kierkegaard
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Søren Kierkegaard
The more one suffers, the more, I...
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Søren Kierkegaard
The more a man becomes himself, the...
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Thomas Aquinas
To one who has faith, no...
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Thomas Aquinas
Beware the man of a single book.
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Thomas Aquinas
Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
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Thomas Aquinas
Three things are necessary for the...
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Thomas Aquinas
Grace does not destroy nature, but...
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Thomas Aquinas
The things that we love tell us...
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Thomas Aquinas
Faith is a habit of mind by which...
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Thomas Aquinas
It is requisite for the good of the...
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Thomas Aquinas
Good is to be done and pursued, and...
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Thomas Aquinas
Law is an ordinance of reason for...
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Thomas Aquinas
The highest perfection of human...
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Thomas Aquinas
There is nothing in the intellect...
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Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good...
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Thomas Aquinas
Hope is the reaching out of the...
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Thomas Aquinas
To love is to will good to someone.
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Thomas Hobbes
The life of man: solitary, poor,...
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Thomas Hobbes
Covenants, without the sword, are...
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Thomas Hobbes
Words are wise men's counters, they...
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Thomas Hobbes
During the time men live without a...
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Thomas Hobbes
The condition of man is a condition...
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Thomas Hobbes
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Thomas Hobbes
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Thomas Hobbes
Knowledge is the way to power.
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Thomas Hobbes
Fear of things invisible is the...
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Thomas Hobbes
No man's error becomes his own law,...
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Thomas Hobbes
Value, or worth of a man, is as of...
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Thomas Hobbes
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
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Thomas Paine
These are the times that try men's...
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Thomas Paine
Government, even in its best state,...
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Thomas Paine
The world is my country, all...
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Thomas Paine
My country is the world, and my...
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Thomas Paine
A long habit of not thinking a...
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Thomas Paine
Independence is my happiness, and I...
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Thomas Paine
He that would make his own liberty...
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Thomas Paine
The sun never shined on a cause of...
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Thomas Paine
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily...
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Thomas Paine
To argue with a person who has...
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Thomas Paine
My own mind is my own church.
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Victor Hugo
There is nothing more powerful than...
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Victor Hugo
He who opens a school door closes a...
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Victor Hugo
There is one spectacle grander than...
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Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness of life is...
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Victor Hugo
Compassion is the basis of all...
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Viktor Frankl
Everything can be taken from a man...
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Viktor Frankl
Those who have a 'why' to live can...
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Viktor Frankl
When we are no longer able to...
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Viktor Frankl
The meaning of life differs from...
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Viktor Frankl
Between stimulus and response there...
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Viktor Frankl
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal...
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Walt Whitman
I celebrate myself, and sing...
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Walt Whitman
I am as bad as the worst, but,...
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Walt Whitman
O me! O life! of the questions of...
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William James
Truth is what works; the truth of...
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William James
Consciousness is not a sum of...
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William James
Habit is the enormous fly-wheel of...
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William James
The truth of an idea is not a...
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William James
The only things that shall be...
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William James
Consciousness, then, does not...
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William James
Our passional nature not only...
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William James
Habit is thus the enormous flywheel...
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William James
The war against war will never go...
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William James
The deepest principle in human...
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William Shakespeare
To be, or not to be, that is the...
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William Shakespeare
Brevity is the soul of wit.
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William Shakespeare
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
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William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage, and all...
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William Shakespeare
A coward dies a thousand deaths...