Category: philosopher
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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.
Noam Chomsky
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is natural to die as to be born.
Francis Bacon
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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
Francis Bacon
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The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
John Ruskin
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I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
Diogenes
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
Plato
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Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
George Santayana
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
Michel de Montaigne