Category: philosopher
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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
Thomas Carlyle
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is the children between five and seven who are the word-lovers. It is they who show a predisposition toward such study. Their undeveloped minds can not yet grasp a complete idea with distinctness. They do, however, understand words. And they may be entirely carried away by their ecstatic, their tireless interest in the parts of speech.
Maria Montessori
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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana
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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Francis Bacon
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Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Man’s shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
Maimonides
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We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
Plato