Category: philosopher
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
Maria Montessori
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Many people must have noticed the intense attention given by children to the conversation of grown-ups when they cannot possibly be understanding a word of what they hear. They are trying to get hold of words, and they often demonstrate this fact by repeating joyously some word which they have been able to grasp.
Maria Montessori
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Plato
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
George Santayana
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The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
Lao Tzu
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Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
Henry David Thoreau
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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
Aristotle
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Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
Marcus Aurelius