Category: philosopher
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky
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It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
Aristotle
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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
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Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.
Jean de la Bruyere
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A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
Chanakya
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
Thomas Carlyle
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What is true belongs to me!
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every sin is the result of a collaboration.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca