Category: philosopher
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
Lao Tzu
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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
Bertrand Russell
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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
Bertrand Russell
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I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.
Noam Chomsky
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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Bertrand Russell
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If we don’t know life, how can we know death?
Confucius
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson