Category: philosopher
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Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
John Ruskin
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
Michel de Montaigne
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So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
Henry David Thoreau
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
Rene Descartes
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
Lao Tzu
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Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle
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We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau