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A Ralph Waldo Emerson New Year's 🧵:
Contemporaries called him "the most original mind America has produced," and he no doubt had one of the pithiest pens of his era.
Here are ten bangers from Emerson to set you off on the right foot for the New Year.
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@UpdatingOnRome
Ancient Man: Ouch! I just accidentally cut off my finger with an ax! Hate when that happens!
Archeologist 5000 years later finds his bones: Wow, this dude must've been in a cult. Religious people are so weird. I'm very intelligent.
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@Culture_Crit
Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
- Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage (1878)
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@Culture_Crit
Tolkien wrote:
“I am a Christian…so I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ — though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory.”
His novels were attempted glimpses of that final victory.
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@UpdatingOnRome
This is the ideal imperial economy. You might not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
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@Culture_Crit
Thomas Carlyle's On Heroes
"We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man, without gaining something by him. He is the living light-fountain... of native original insight, of manhood and heroic nobleness;—in whose radiance all souls feel that it is well with them."
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@ChivalryGuild
"A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day."
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@Culture_Crit
“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveler, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!”
~Charles Dickens
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@Culture_Crit
Cicero’s Writings deserve an honorable mention.
Generations of thinkers, from the Medieval era on (including America’s Founding Fathers) were literally schooled on him, studying and translating.
He was their entry to the classical world and shaped the world they built.
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@ChivalryGuild
“What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils?”
~Basil of Caesarea
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@culturaltutor
One of my favorite American examples of impasto:
Taos Mountain, Trail Home, ca. 1915-1920, by Cordelia Wilson
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@archi_tradition
France’s cathedrals are so inspiring.
Rouen Cathedral, Full Sunlight, 1894, Claude Monet (1840-1926)
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@Architectolder
On street-level, it’s a rather jarring juxtaposition.
cc by-sa 3.0, Thomas Robbin
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1. "Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely."
~ Emerson, Letters
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This Rubicon Day, a thought:
At 25, Julius Caesar was:
- a hostage to Cilician pirates
-heavily in debt
-a failure at everything he had tried
At age 55, he was:
-Conqueror of Gaul
-Undisputed leader of Rome
If you think it’s too late to reinvent yourself, you’re wrong. 🙏
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"Is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?" -
#MarcusAurelius
☕️🤔
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@Culture_Crit
In the 1920s, Bertrand Russell said of Chicago:
“A European who goes to… Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.”
Who would ever possibly say that today?
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"Nothing happens to anyone that he can't endure." -
#MarcusAurelius
#Meditations
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#Dailymotivation
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#wisdom
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#stoicism
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#philosophyquotes
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8 lessons from Julius Caesar:
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1. Be Resilient
Caesar was born into privilege, but it turned into a curse.
His uncle was Gaius Marius, the Greatest Man in Rome.
Until he wasn't.
His supporters were round up and killed.
Caesar fled. But he didn't quit. He waited.
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@PhysInHistory
“The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.”
-Ada Lovelace
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"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could -- some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in. Forget them as fast as you can... Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely." -
#RallphWaldoEmerson
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8. "Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry... Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth?"
~Emerson, Literary Ethics
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OTD, Jan 17, 1781, Brig. Gen. Daniel Morgan changed history, expertly playing into British low opinion of the Continental militia to lure them into a feigned retreat trap and winning the Battle of Cowpens.
The Lesson: Use your enemy's assumptions against them.
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"If anyone speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said but answer, 'He must be ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.'" -
#Epictetus
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#Dailymotivation
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#wisdom
from
#stoicism
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#philosophyquotes
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7. "Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
~Emerson, Journals
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2. "One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday."
~ Emerson, Society and Solitude
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@Templarpilled
@thinkingwest
“An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.”
~ James Michener
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6. "The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him... In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's."
~Emerson, The Divinity College Address
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9. "God will not have his work made manifest by cowards... Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."
~Emerson, Self-Reliance
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"Poverty is the lack of many things, but avarice is the lack of all things." -
#PubliliusSyrus
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#Dailymotivation
and
#DailyWisdom
from
#stoicism
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#philosophyquotes
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10. "To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom."
~Emerson, Experience
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Some advice:
Be silent for the most part.
Or, if you speak, say only what is necessary and in a few words.
If you do talk, don’t talk of ordinary things—of gladiators or horse races or athletes.
But above all do not talk about men in blame or comparison.
~Marcus Aurelius
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"Any fool can make a rule
And every fool will mind it."
-
#HenryDavidThoreau
#philosophy
#philosophyquotes
#motivation
#stoic
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5. "This day... for all that is good & fair... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays."
~Emerson, Letters
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"Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom heals those of the soul." -
#Democritus
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#Dailymotivation
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#DailyWisdom
from
#stoicism
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#philosophyquotes
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4. "Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation... That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him."
~Emerson, Self-Reliance
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"We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we speak." -
#Zeno
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#Dailymotivation
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#dailywisdom
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#stoicism
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#philosophyquotes
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"Most of what we say or do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquility. As yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'" -
#MarcusAurelius
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#Meditations
#stoicism
#motivation
#philosophyquotes
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"Man shouldn't fear death. He should fear never beginning to live." -
#MarcusAurelius
#Meditations
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#Dailymotivation
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#wisdom
from
#stoicism
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#philosophyquotes
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@culturaltutor
The first Caravaggio piece in the below thread is a great example of tenebrism. He creates so much drama with light and shadow.
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3. "He only is rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that."
~ Emerson, Society and Solitude
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"A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves." -
#SimoneWeil
🤔 ☕.
#Wisdom
#Inspiration
#philosophy
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#philosophyquotes
#dailywisdom
#dailyinspiration
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"Growth is slow, but the way to ruin is rapid." -
#Seneca
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#Dailymotivation
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#wisdom
from
#stoicism
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#philosophyquotes
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"Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours." -
#Epictetus
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#Dailymotivation
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#wisdom
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#stoicism
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#philosophyquotes
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"The greatest price of refusing to participate in politics is being governed by your inferiors." - Plato, The Republic
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@ChivalryGuild
Once actions are judged only based on their efficiency rather than their nobility,
And once people are valued only for their utility rather than their intrinsic humanity,
Society’s lost its way.
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“It is very possible to be a divine man, and to be recognized as such by no one. Always keep this in mind.”
-Marcus Aurelius
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"How much time you can gain by not looking at what your neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what you yourself do to make yourself just and holy!" -
#MarcusAurelius
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#Meditations
#stoicism
#motivation
#philosophyquotes
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@Culture_Crit
Venice been doing it right for centuries.
“Nocturnal view of the procession on Christmas Eve of the Doge and Venetian Senate to San Giorgio Maggiore,” 1763, by Giovanni Battista Brustolon, Met Museum
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RIP Charlie Munger (1924-2023) a business leadership legend but also a nuanced and philosophically deep (and highly quotable) thinker.
Here are 20 of his quotes that made us think ⬇️
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"The truly good and wise person will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow." -
#Aristotle
#stoicism
#motivation
#philosophyquotes
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"Life is a kind of Chess in which we have often points to gain and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events that are, in some degree, the effect of prudence, or the want of it." -
#BenjaminFranklin
#philosophy
#stoic
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"To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great." -
#GFWHegel
#HegelQuotes
Think this is true? Discuss. Give it a 🤔 over some ☕.
#Wisdom
#Inspiration
#philosophy
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#philosophyquotes
#dailywisdom
#dailyinspiration
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“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
~Leo Tolstoy, War & Peace
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"After fame is oblivion." -
#MarcusAurelius
#Meditations
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#Dailymotivation
and
#wisdom
from
#stoicism
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#philosophyquotes
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"That which is really beautiful has its source of beauty in itself and has no need of anything. It is none the worse nor the better for being praised." -
#MarcusAurelius
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#Meditations
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#Dailymotivation
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#wisdom
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#stoicism
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#philosophyquotes
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"Give yourself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around." -
#MarcusAurelius
#Meditations
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#Dailymotivation
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#wisdom
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#stoicism
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#philosophyquotes
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8. Beware of the Ides of March
Just before his death, Caesar was at his zenith.
He thought he was untouchable.
He was warned that catastrophe was coming, but he ignored it.
When you are at your most successful, you are at your most vulnerable. Pride goeth before the fall.
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"Moderation in all things. Nothing in excess." -
#Terence
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#Dailymotivation
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#wisdom
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#stoicism
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#philosophyquotes
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"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven." -
#RalphWaldoEmerson
#philosophy
#philosophyquotes
#motivation
#stoic
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"A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom." -
#HenryDavidThoreau
#philosophy
#philosophyquotes
#motivation
#stoic
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"Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other." -
#Euripides
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#Dailymotivation
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#wisdom
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#stoicism
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#philosophyquotes
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For Christmas Eve, 20 of the most beautiful depictions of the Adoration of the Shepherds at Christ’s Nativity, from medieval and renaissance art. 🪡🧵
1. by El Greco, c. 1605–1610
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@fasc1nate
“Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"The ancestors of every action is a thought." -
#RalphWaldoEmerson
#philosophy
#philosophyquotes
#motivation
#stoic
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“The best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.” — Booker T. Washington.
#stoicism
#bookertwashington
#Motivation
#InspirationalQuotes
#MotivationalQuotes
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"Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time." -
#Epictetus
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#Dailymotivation
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#wisdom
from
#stoicism
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#philosophyquotes
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"From my mother, I learned piety and generosity, and to abstain not only from doing wrong but even from contemplating it, and simplicity in my way of living." -
#MarcusAurelius
#motivation
#inspiration
#stoicism
#quotes
#qotd
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"Whatever happens at all happens as it should." -
#MarcusAurelius
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#Meditations
#stoicism
#motivation
#philosophyquotes
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"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others." -
#Cicero
#HappyThanksgiving
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"I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality." -
#HenryDavidThoreau
#philosophy
#philosophyquotes
#motivation
#stoic
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"Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well." -
#EarlofChesterfield
#philosophyquotes
#stoicism
#motivationalquotes
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"One should accept the truth from whatever source it proceeds." -
#MosesMaimonides
🤔 ☕.
#Wisdom
#Inspiration
#philosophy
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#philosophyquotes
#dailywisdom
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"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men -- that is genius." -
#RalphWaldoEmerson
#philosophy
#philosophyquotes
#motivation
#stoic
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"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as the greatest virtues." -
#ReneDescartes
#DescartesQuotes
Think this is true? Discuss. Give it a 🤔 over some ☕.
#Wisdom
#Inspiration
#philosophy
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#philosophyquotes
#dailywisdom
#dailyinspiration
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3. Aim High
Caesar's hero was Alexander the Great.
When he realized at the same age, 33, Alexander had conquered the world, he wept.
At 33, Caesar was a nobody -- no one expected him to have conquered anything. It was absurd.
But he held greater expectations for himself.
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"I really know nothing more criminal... more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and... lies are always detected, sooner or later." -
#EarlofChesterfield
#philosophyquotes
#stoicism
#motivationalquotes
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"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." -
#FrancisBacon
Think this is true? Discuss. Give it a 🤔 over some ☕.
#Wisdom
#Inspiration
#philosophy
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#philosophyquotes
#dailywisdom
#dailyinspiration
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9. by Guido Reni, c. 1630–1642
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"No one is able to rule unless he is also able to be ruled." -
#Seneca
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#Dailymotivation
and
#wisdom
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#stoicism
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#philosophyquotes
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"The manner is often as important as the matter, sometimes more so." -
#EarlofChesterfield
#philosophyquotes
#stoicism
#motivationalquotes
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"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul." -
#MarcusAurelius
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#Meditations
#stoicism
#motivation
#philosophyquotes
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