Category: philosopher
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Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
Adam Smith
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One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
Lao Tzu
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The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.
Bertrand Russell
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War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke
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It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
Adam Smith
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana