Category: philosopher
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That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
John Ruskin
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Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
Diogenes
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
Rumi
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The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Rene Descartes
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Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Confucius
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David Thoreau
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Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
Friedrich Nietzsche