Category: philosopher
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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Socrates
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Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
Bertrand Russell
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Francis Bacon
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
William James
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Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu