Category: philosopher
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A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Henry David Thoreau
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Plato
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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
John Ruskin
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
John Muir
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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
Plato
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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
Lao Tzu
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Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle
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Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau