Category: philosopher
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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
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Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Opportunity makes a thief.
Francis Bacon
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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
Plato
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If you judge, investigate.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Bertrand Russell