Category: philosopher
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The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Confucius
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
Noam Chomsky
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Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.
Rene Descartes
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon
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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Francis Bacon
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Plato
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There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
Henry David Thoreau
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Meteorologists are pretty faces reading scripts telling you whether it’s going to rain tomorrow.
Noam Chomsky
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Socrates