Category: philosopher
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Michel de Montaigne
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Francis Bacon
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Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.
Noam Chomsky
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To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
Thomas Aquinas
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Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
Zhuangzi
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Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
Henry David Thoreau
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
Henry David Thoreau
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What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca