Category: philosopher
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand Russell
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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle
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Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Aristotle
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Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
Marcus Aurelius
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Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
John Ruskin
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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Thomas Carlyle
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
Ralph Waldo Emerson