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"Nature and wisdom never are at strife"
Plutarch, Philosopher
"For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human"
Plutarch, Philosopher
"The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?""
Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher
"Art raises its head where creeds relax"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"We cannot command Nature except by obeying her"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook"
William James, Philosopher
"No man was ever wise by chance"
Seneca, Philosopher
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil"
Plato, Philosopher
"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it"
Søren Kierkegaard, 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 longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming"
Arthur Schopenhauer, 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
"Some books leave us free and some books make us free"
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
"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall"
Francis Bacon, 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
"Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
"There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk"
Jean-Paul Sartre, 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
"Wit is the epitaph of an emotion"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
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