Category: philosopher
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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
Thomas Carlyle
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The court is like a palace of marble; it’s composed of people very hard and very polished.
Jean de la Bruyere
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The gods’ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.
Plato
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If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Lao Tzu
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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
Thomas Carlyle
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The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. The whole continent was a garden, and from the beginning, it seemed to be favored above all the other wild parks and gardens of the globe.
John Muir
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Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo Emerson