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"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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"To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them"
Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher
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"Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing"
Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher
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"Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher
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"Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress"
Epictetus, Philosopher
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"The more laws, the less justice"
Cicero, Philosopher
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"Women, can't live with them, can't live without them"
Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher
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"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
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"Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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"War does not determine who is right - only who is left"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
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"There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results"
Judith Butler, Philosopher
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"There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus"
Blaise Pascal, Philosopher
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"A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie"
Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher
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"The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
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"Every wall is a door"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
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"Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen"
Anaxagoras, Philosopher
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"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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"Never give a sword to a man who can't dance"
Confucius, Philosopher
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"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest"
George Matthew Adams, Philosopher
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"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living"
Cicero, Philosopher
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"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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"The years teach much which the days never know"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
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"Words are loaded pistols"
Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher
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"He was a wise man who invented beer"
Plato, Philosopher
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"If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people"
Confucius, Philosopher
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"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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"I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing"
William James, Philosopher
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"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
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"When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff"
Cicero, Philosopher
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"Democracy is the road to socialism"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
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