Category: philosopher
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
Thomas Carlyle
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
Michel de Montaigne
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Study the past, if you would divine the future.
Confucius
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Rene Descartes
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There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
George Santayana
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The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.
Maria Montessori
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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Thomas Carlyle
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I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
Zhuangzi