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"The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?""
Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"We cannot command Nature except by obeying her"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook"
William James, Philosopher
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory"
Cicero, Philosopher
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master"
Plato, Philosopher
"Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil"
Plato, Philosopher
"Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
"Nature and wisdom never are at strife"
Plutarch, Philosopher
"All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine"
Socrates, Philosopher
"In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher
"The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming"
Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher
"No man was ever wise by chance"
Seneca, Philosopher
"Wit is the epitaph of an emotion"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff"
Cicero, Philosopher
"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"Opportunity makes a thief"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
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