Category: philosopher
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Diogenes
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Aristotle
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
Michel de Montaigne
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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
Heraclitus
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The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
Thomas Carlyle
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By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Friedrich Nietzsche