Category: philosopher
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Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince’s part to pardon.
Francis Bacon
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Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
Bertrand Russell
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
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Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Plato
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
Soren Kierkegaard