Category: philosopher
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No man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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No complaint… is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
Adam Smith
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Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
John Ruskin
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle
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A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‘superlive,’ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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In Egypt, on the eve of Tahrir Square, there was a major poll which found that overwhelmingly – 80-90%, numbers like that – Egyptians regarded the main threats they face as the U.S. and Israel. They don’t like Iran – Arabs generally don’t like Iran – but they didn’t consider it a threat.
Noam Chomsky
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Francis Bacon
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When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land.
Noam Chomsky
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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‘always do what you are afraid to do.’
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
Plato