Category: philosopher
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I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Henry David Thoreau
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
Marcus Aurelius
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Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
Henry David Thoreau
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The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.
Noam Chomsky
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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
Plato
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A feeble body weakens the mind.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
Jean de la Bruyere
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Karl Marx
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There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
John Ruskin
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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
Jean de la Bruyere