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Famous quotes by Philosophers

"When one has a great deal to put into it, a day has a hundred pockets"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The reward of a thing well done is having done it"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A man is what he thinks about all day long"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A great man is always willing to be little"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'Always do what you are afraid to do'"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"While there's life, there's hope"
Cicero, Philosopher
Cicero
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"Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?"
Cicero, Philosopher
Cicero
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"When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank"
Cicero, Philosopher
Cicero
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"There are more men ennobled by study than by nature"
Cicero, Philosopher
Cicero
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"The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk"
Cicero, Philosopher
Cicero
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"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured"
Cicero, Philosopher
Cicero
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"Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it"
Aristotle, Philosopher
Aristotle
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit"
Aristotle, Philosopher
Aristotle
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"The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching"
Aristotle, Philosopher
Aristotle
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"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god"
Aristotle, Philosopher
Aristotle
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"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers"
Aristotle, Philosopher
Aristotle
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"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men"
Plato, Philosopher
Plato
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"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men"
Plato, Philosopher
Plato
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"All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince"
Plato, Philosopher
Plato
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