Category: philosopher
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Michel de Montaigne
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Marcus Aurelius
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When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Confucius
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Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
William James
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Plato
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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Be as you wish to seem.
Socrates