Category: philosopher
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The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Before all else, be armed.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
Thomas Hobbes
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
Jean de la Bruyere
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Aristotle
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A man’s character is his guardian divinity.
Heraclitus
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Socrates
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle
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Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin