Category: philosopher
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates
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The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!
Noam Chomsky
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The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.
Aristotle
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Plato
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Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
Michel de Montaigne