Category: philosopher
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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
Henry David Thoreau
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John Muir
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato
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Confine yourself to the present.
Marcus Aurelius
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
Noam Chomsky
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry David Thoreau
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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
Thomas Carlyle
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The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
Rumi