Category: philosopher
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The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
Diogenes
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
Adam Smith
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Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
Confucius
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The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.
Maria Montessori
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Francis Bacon
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Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Lao Tzu
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edmund Burke