Category: philosopher
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The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Confucius
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke
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Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
Thomas Aquinas
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Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
Marcus Aurelius
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The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
Marcus Aurelius
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
Soren Kierkegaard
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The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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By nature’s kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man’s power to answer do not occur to him at all.
George Santayana