Category: philosopher
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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
Marcus Aurelius
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
Soren Kierkegaard
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It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support and illegally using U.S. weapons.
Noam Chomsky
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
Edmund Burke
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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle
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Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
Adam Smith
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The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.
Friedrich Nietzsche