Category: philosopher
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Life is warfare.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
Chanakya
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
John Muir
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What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Michel de Montaigne
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Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
John Ruskin
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Lao Tzu