Category: philosopher
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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
Jean de la Bruyere
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The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
John Ruskin
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There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
Michel de Montaigne
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An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
Confucius
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‘Evil men have no songs.’ How is it that the Russians have songs?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is no such thing as a lovers’ oath.
Plato
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke
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In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson