Category: philosopher
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Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
Thomas Aquinas
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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The wisest have the most authority.
Plato
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
Lao Tzu
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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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In war there is no prize for runner-up.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
Henry David Thoreau
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The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
George Santayana
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Aristotle
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My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression – thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential.
Noam Chomsky