Category: philosopher
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Thomas Carlyle
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Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Socrates
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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.
Francis Bacon
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
Thomas Carlyle
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
Francis Bacon
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A great mind becomes a great fortune.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Marcus Aurelius
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Chinese military spending is carefully monitored by the United States.
Noam Chomsky