Category: philosopher
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Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato
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To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
Thomas Aquinas
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Aristotle
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Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Plato
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
Thomas Hobbes
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Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.
Marcus Aurelius
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
Thomas Carlyle