Category: philosopher
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne
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Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s – the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.
Noam Chomsky
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
Michel de Montaigne
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He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
Lao Tzu
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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
Michel de Montaigne
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
William James
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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Thomas Carlyle