Category: philosopher
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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.
Francis Bacon
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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David Thoreau
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect, they are permanent.
Maimonides
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I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
Lao Tzu
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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
Rene Descartes