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Quotes by Philosopher
"Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life' banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'."
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"Most self-employed people remain slaves to the employed's working hours."
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"Your end can be greater than your beginning: butterflies are the greatest proof of this."
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"The shrewd may gain temporarily, but the wise gain permanently."
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"Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness."
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"Know truth. Respect facts. Doubt opinions. Reject lies."
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"What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?"
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"One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more publicity and initiative on the part of civil servants. They ought to have the right, and, on occasion, the duty, to frame Bills in their own names, and set forth publicly the arguments in their favor."
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"History is full of paths and the most useful, the most rational paths for humanity is mostly empty!"
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"When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity."
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"I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in yourselves."
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"He who cannot dance blames the song."
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"Don't anticipate for a promise, let it be an unexpected favour, this will increase your power of independence."
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"Roof of your house is not your real roof; the walls of your house are not your real walls, your fists are not your real fists! Your real roof, your real wall, your real fist, your real shield is your right thinking! It is your right thinking that protects you from every danger!"
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"Beautiful gifts sometimes come wrapped in ugly paper."
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"Clear skies do not promise rain."
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"A beautiful face is temporary, a beautiful soul is forever."
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"Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion."
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"You will never reach the stars without courage to lose sight of the ground."
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"There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman."
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"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants."
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"Dogs are often happier than men simply because the simplest things are the greatest things for them!"
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"Be calm on your wedding day; she won't kill you in front of a hundred people, no matter what you've done."
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"Wine had to be grapes first. Diamonds had to be rocks first. Butterflies had to be caterpillars first. Rainbows had to be storms first."
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"A sage benefits from his mistakes more than a fool benefits from his triumphs."
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"On the matters where your country is wrong, don't take side with your country! Because it is always wrong to be on the side of wrong!"
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"There is no real silence for the sensitive ears and there is no real tranquility for the sensitive hearts!"
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"When we observe how some people know how to manage their experiences--their insignificant, everyday experiences--so that they become an arable soil that bears fruit three times a year, while others--and how many there are!--are driven through surging waves of destiny, the most multifarious currents of the times and the nations, and yet always remain on top, bobbing like a cork, then we are in the end tempted to divide mankind into a minority (a minimality) of those who know how to make much of little, and a majority of those who know how to make little of much."
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"If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs."
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"If you want to double your happiness, pour it into someone else."
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"To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic."
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"Crowds don't think; they act; they don't produce ideas, they produce actions!"
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"There is no such a thing as missing the train of your life! Life is very rich and very generous, it always offers you new opportunities! Already-missed will soon be substituted by the not-missed-yet!"
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"Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened."
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"A spouse is someone you can live with, a soulmate is someone you can't live without."
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"Once employed, the employed's friends are reduced to creatures that he only sees when he has a new problem, or, something new to show off."
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"You were born a winner, you decide whether you remain one or not."
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"A: But why this solitude? - B: I am not at odds with anyone. But when I am alone I seem to see my friends in a clearer and fairer light than when I am with them; and when I loved and appreciated music the most, I lived far from it. It seems I need a distant perspective if I am to think well of things."
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"The world is changing rapidly, and everyone changes along with the world. Discoveries is now becoming rampant; intellectually, technologically,etc, each having its advantage and disadvantage."
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"How many races have been dehumanized in the name of evolution and scientific race theories? Is a bomb a religious or a scientific invention?"
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"Great men learn from their weaknesses, and learn to use their strengths. Ordinary men learn nothing from their weaknesses, and underuse their strengths."
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"Anger has great strength, but no brains. Greed has many hands, but no heart. Fear has many titles, but no honor. Hate has many forms, but no soul."
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"Lead rationally. Lead responsibly. Lead resiliently. Lead reliably."
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"History shows us that people often make mistakes, they give wrong decisions, they vote for the wrong persons! And history also shows us that in the end they pay a heavy price for it!"
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"One deed from a sage achieves more than a thousand deeds from warriors."
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"Great sages began as great students."
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"If stars avoided the dark, they would not be visible at night."
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