Category: philosopher
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The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
John Ruskin
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
Michel de Montaigne
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I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood – certainly not German blood.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Aristotle
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To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
Confucius
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
Noam Chomsky
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Thomas Carlyle
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The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
Bertrand Russell
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau