Category: philosopher
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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Henry David Thoreau
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When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
Francis Bacon
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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Francis Bacon
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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Chanakya
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson