Category: philosopher
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They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
Francis Bacon
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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
Confucius
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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth – the soil and the labourer.
Karl Marx
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
William James
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There are only three events in a man’s life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
Ralph Waldo Emerson