Category: philosopher
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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
Jean de la Bruyere
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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
Lao Tzu
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There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
Edmund Burke
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl Marx
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Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.
Bertrand Russell
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.
Noam Chomsky
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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche