Category: philosopher
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He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Plato
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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau
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The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
John Ruskin
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Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.
Confucius
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Karl Marx
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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
Thomas Aquinas