Category: philosopher
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All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
Henry David Thoreau
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
George Santayana
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Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
Henry David Thoreau
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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Thomas Carlyle