Category: philosopher
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
Heraclitus
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Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.
Noam Chomsky
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
Henry David Thoreau
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I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.
Diogenes
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Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Life, if well lived, is long enough.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith