Category: philosopher
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
Michel de Montaigne
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If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
Maria Montessori
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It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
John Ruskin
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It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Henry David Thoreau
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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
George Santayana
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After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
Henry David Thoreau
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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
Thomas Carlyle