Category: philosopher
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon
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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Socrates
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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund Burke