Category: philosopher
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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
Diogenes
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There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
Chanakya
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Stand a little less between me and the sun.
Diogenes
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We are wiser than we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Thomas Carlyle
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A man’s character is his fate.
Heraclitus
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Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.
Noam Chomsky
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A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Thomas Carlyle
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Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
Friedrich Nietzsche