Category: philosopher
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To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David Thoreau
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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
Michel de Montaigne
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It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
Bertrand Russell
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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Francis Bacon
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Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
Thomas Aquinas
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
Marcus Aurelius
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand Russell