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A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying ‘You are mad; you are not like us.’ Saint Antony the Great
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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. Nietzsche
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The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge. Aristotle
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Your silence gives consent. Plato
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. Montaigne
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The two greatest warriors are patience and time. Leo Tolstoy
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. Plato
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. Voltaire
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To study and not think is wasteful. To think and not study is dangerous. Confucius
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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. Nietzsche
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The less men think, the more they talk. Montesquieu
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Evil destroys even itself. Aristotle
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A friend to all is a friend to none. Aristotle
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He who does not desire power is fit to hold it. Plato
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Doubt is uncomfortable, but certainty is ridiculous. Voltaire
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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. Nietzsche
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When there is love you can live even without happiness. Dostoevsky
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain
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Your silence gives consent. Plato
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A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor.
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He who is not contented with what he has, will not be contented with what he would like to have. Socrates
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Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one. Nietzsche
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If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking. Benjamin Franklin
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Thinking is easy. Acting is hard. But acting in accordance with your thinking is the hardest thing in the world. Johann von Goethe
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. Aristotle
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. Aristotle
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. Socrates
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Any fool can know. The point is to understand. Albert Einstein
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No man was ever wise by chance. Seneca
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"Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?"
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Blaise Pascal
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. Descartes
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We see things not as they are, but as we are. Tomlinson
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He is richest who is content with what he has, little or much. Socrates
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Doubt is uncomfortable, but certainty is ridiculous. Voltaire
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Conquer yourself rather than the world. Descartes
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle
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The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment. Napoleon
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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance. Confucius
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but few think of changing themselves. Leo Tolstoy
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in. Schopenhauer
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. Socrates
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He who does not desire power is fit to hold it. Plato
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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. Albert Camus
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The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it. George Orwell
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Hell is the inability to love. Dostoevsky
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. Aristotle
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Kant
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A friend to all is a friend to none. Aristotle
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Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding. Ancient Proverb
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It is not death that a man should fear, but rather never beginning to live. Marcus Aurelius
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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Nietzsche
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The most common lies a man tells are to himself. Nietzsche
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He is richest who is content with what he has, little or much. Socrates
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. Aristotle
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Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope. Aristotle
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Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. Sartre
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. Montaigne
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Men are quick to believe what they want to be true. Julius Caesar
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The public has an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Oscar Wilde
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Men are quick to believe what they want to be true. Julius Caesar
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no fool. Isaac Newton
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He is richest who is content with the least. Socrates
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Laziness is a kind of sadness. Thomas Aquinas
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Sometimes, even to live is an act of courage. Seneca
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No one is more miserable that the person who wills everything but does nothing. Claudius
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Natural Beauty The Taiwan Blue Magpie
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I measure the strength of a spirit by how much truth it can take. Nietzsche
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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something in your life. Winston Churchill
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. Lao Tzu
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We become what we think about all day long. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. Nietzsche
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No man was ever wise by chance. Seneca
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Who you are when no one is looking is who you are.
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For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. Nietzsche
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The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. Socrates
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Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind. Einstein
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Kant
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People can contradict an opinion solely because of the tone in which it was expressed. Nietzsche
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I measure the strength of a spirit by how much truth it can take. Nietzsche
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Death is not the worst that can happen to a man. Plato
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are. Soren Kierkegaard
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All men will see what you seem to be; only a few will know who you are. Machiavelli
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it. Leo Tolstoy
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Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. Wittgenstein
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Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72. Mark Twain
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. Aristotle
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All men will see what you seem to be; only a few will know who you are. Machiavelli
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Fear is just the consequence of every lie. Dostoevsky
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Your silence gives consent. Plato
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Those that are slowest to make a promise are most faithful to keep it. Rousseau
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We see things not as they are, but as we are. Tomlinson
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Do not consider it proof when it is written in a book, a liar who deceives with his tongue, will not hesitate to deceive with his pen. Maimonides
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For greed, the entire world is too little. Seneca
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People can contradict an opinion solely because of the tone in which it was expressed. Nietzsche
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. Aristotle
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No one heals himself by wounding another. Ambrose
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Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. Alexander Hamilton
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