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Famous quotes by Philosophers

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
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"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Earth laughs in flowers"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"No sane man will dance"
Cicero, Philosopher
Cicero
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"Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator"
Cicero, Philosopher
Cicero
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"A letter does not blush"
Cicero, Philosopher
Cicero
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"A home without books is a body without soul"
Cicero, Philosopher
Cicero
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"Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due"
Cicero, Philosopher
Cicero
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"If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it"
Cicero, Philosopher
Cicero
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"Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements, but in virtuous activities"
Aristotle, Philosopher
Aristotle
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"The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication"
Aristotle, Philosopher
Aristotle
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"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind"
Aristotle, Philosopher
Aristotle
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"Quality is not an act, it is a habit"
Aristotle, Philosopher
Aristotle
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"The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control and outnumbers both of the other classes"
Aristotle, Philosopher
Aristotle
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"The law is reason, free from passion"
Aristotle, Philosopher
Aristotle
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work"
Aristotle, Philosopher
Aristotle
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"He who hath many friends hath none"
Aristotle, Philosopher
Aristotle
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"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something"
Plato, Philosopher
Plato
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"When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself"
Plato, Philosopher
Plato
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"They do certainly give very strange and newfangled names to diseases"
Plato, Philosopher
Plato
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"The measure of a man is what he does with power"
Plato, Philosopher
Plato
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"The good is the beautiful"
Plato, Philosopher
Plato
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"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue"
Plato, Philosopher
Plato
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"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods"
Plato, Philosopher
Plato
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"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life"
Plato, Philosopher
Plato
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"For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions"
Plato, Philosopher
Plato
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"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men"
Plato, Philosopher
Plato
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"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven"
Confucius, Philosopher
Confucius
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