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Quotes by Philosopher
"The moment you are wrapped up in the world, you become blind to the things wrapped in the mysteries."
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"With strength you can move rocks. With faith you can move mountains. With love you can move the world."
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"Love does not wear out the heart, even if it weighs a thousand tons."
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"Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society."
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"Fashion is simply a guideline for style-less people to appear stylish."
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"The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress."
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"Judge not the value of a friend by the number of boy- or girlfriends they helped you get. But by the number of books they've recommended to you."
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"A fish is a genius in water. An eagle is a genius in air. A fox is a genius on land. A sage is a genius in life."
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"As a kid my heart would break for the villains."
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"Before you wear a crown of gold, life sometimes makes you wear a crown of thorns."
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"As a poet there is something about joy I find hard to express, whereas every other emotion is rather simple. For instance, you never feel so bad that you can't describe how bad you feel, but joy on the other hand is far too divine for human language."
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"Brave cubs become fierce lions."
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"Where others only see bricks, train your eyes to see a palace."
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"Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank."
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"In knowledge there is strength, in understanding there is might, and in wisdom there is power."
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"A man who boasts he's the head of the home must never forget the woman is the knife at his throat."
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"When the boat is waiting for you, when the rows are waiting for you, when the calm sea is waiting for you, when the sun is waiting for you, when everything is ready to help you to move forward, be there or those who wait will go away!"
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"Wisdom is a teacher, God is its professor. The wise are His students, life is His rod, and eternal life is our reward."
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"Think innocently. Think intelligently. Think imaginatively. Think inventively."
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"Women never stalk men, they just research them intensely."
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"One does not become a great swimmer by swimming in shallow waters."
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"Even the most perfect advice cannot be as useful as a staircase or a rope for those who live in the dark wells!"
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"Cherish all. Depend on few. Hurt none. Love everyone."
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"A hungry cat does no favour to a trapped bird!"
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"When we were monkeys, we were more human because we were at least not destroying the nature those days!"
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"When you reach the mountaintop look upand think of how high you must leap to reach the stars."
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"Even in the presence of others he was completely alone."
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"Folly plots a fool's death from the moment they become friends. Wisdom bestows blessings upon a wise man from the moment they wed."
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"Fight honorably, win honorably, and lose honorably. To fail honorably is betterthan to succeed dishonorably."
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"A strong ant is better than a weak lion."
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"If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day."
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"There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age."
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"We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success."
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"And in this we must for the most part entertain ourselves with ourselves, and so privately that no exotic knowledge or communication be admitted there; there to laugh and to talk, as if without wife, children, goods, train, or attendance, to the end that when it shall so fall out that we must lose any or all of these, it may be no new thing to be without them. We have a mind pliable in itself; that will be company; that has wherewithal to attack and to defend, to receive and to give: let us not then fear in this solitude to languish under an uncomfortable vacuity."
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"Let us be brave in the face of adversity."
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"When I was poor, I was rich because I was happy; when I was wealthy, I was poor because I was sad."
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"In order to soar like an eagle one has to be bold like a lion."
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"It is the strongest, not the prettiest birds that conquer the sky."
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"Not everyone who talks less or keeps quiet whenever they are with or around you does that because they find you interesting or knowledgeable, some people do that because they find you boring or ignorant."
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"We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany."
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"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."
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"I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;but so far as I can remember,I have followed none but my own."
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"There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing."
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"There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence."
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"Let your home be you mast and not your anchor."
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"For there are two reasons why human beings face danger calmly: they may have no experience of it, or they may have means to deal with it: thus when in danger at sea people may feel confident about what will happen either because they have no experience of bad weather, or because their experience gives them the means of dealing with it."
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"Believing in what you don't know is as true as believing in what you know as long as your life is just an illusion."
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"How small a thought it takes to fill a life."
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"A full mind is more valuable than a full bank account."
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"A tree dances for the wind not because it enjoys it, but because it doesn't want to break."
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