Category: philosopher
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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas Aquinas
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The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand very well.
Noam Chomsky
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations – wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Edmund Burke
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A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
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Most people would rather give than get affection.
Aristotle
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In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.
John Muir
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Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle