Category: philosopher
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
Maimonides
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
John Ruskin
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A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
Chanakya
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
Edmund Burke
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
Bertrand Russell