Category: philosopher
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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Children are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
Francis Bacon
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We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Plato
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What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Henry David Thoreau
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The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.
Noam Chomsky
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The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
Jean de la Bruyere