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4485 Philosopher Quotes

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Character Created Day Develop
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Always Envy Happiness Lasts
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Much learning does not teach understanding.
Does Learning Much Teach
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Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Agree Couples Discordant Things
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The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
Carry Chain Heavy Sometimes
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Big results require big ambitions.
Ambition Big Require Results
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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Better Harmony Hidden Obvious
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Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Achieves Child Himself Man
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Brings Concord Discord Fairest
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The sun is new each day.
Day Each New Sun
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Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

Collaborators Even Goes Universe
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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Danger Does Encounters Also
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If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

Expect Find Reached Search
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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Over Again Boredom Control
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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Assistance Greek Libraries Little
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There is nothing permanent except change.
Change Except Nothing Permanent
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It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

Against Contend Cost Desire
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To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

Beautiful Everything God Good
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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Best Cattle Eternal Fame
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Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

Ears Eyes People Poor
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Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

About Details Know Learn
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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
Day God Hunger Night
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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Evening Hide Ignorance Our
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
Mystery Of Man Existence
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
Nothing This World Speaking
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

Darker Night Brighter Stars
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I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.

Gave Up Caring About
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Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

Love Animals Plants Everything
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

Better Unhappy Know Worst
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

If You Overcome Whole
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Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

Life Matters What Life
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Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

Learning Love Hard Pay
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People speak sometimes about the

People Speak Sometimes Bestial
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If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

You Wish Glimpse Inside
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
You Can Sincere Still
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The soul is healed by being with children.

Peace Soul Healed By
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Wealth is the number of things one can do without.

Wealth The Number Things
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Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.

Yes Right Love Should
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Nothing Easier Than Denounce
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To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.

Love Another Person See
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Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story.

Humanity Can Live Without
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Right attitudes produces right action

Right Attitudes Produces Right
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Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

Love Children Especially They
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Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.

Only Heart Knows How
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Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up

Giving Up Luxury Easy Luxuries
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He who masters the grey everyday is a hero.

Who Masters The Grey
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Only through suffering can we find ourselves.

Climbing Challenges Suffering Only
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Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

Suffering Part Parcel Extensive
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?

But Could Live No
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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

Brains Matter Most Which
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