Category: philosopher
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Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.
Rumi
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell
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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
Aristotle
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One must steer, not talk.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.
Noam Chomsky
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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Plato
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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
Adam Smith
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
Aristotle
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There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
Chanakya
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No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
Thomas Carlyle