Category: philosopher
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Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
William James
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We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle
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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.
Francis Bacon
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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
George Santayana
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He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.
Jean de la Bruyere
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As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree.
John Muir
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What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Aristotle