Category: philosopher
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Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
John Ruskin
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
Francis Bacon
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Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students.
Noam Chomsky
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
Plato
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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
Henry David Thoreau