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4485 Philosopher Quotes

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Circumstances Earnestness Generosity Gravity
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If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Another Arise Cleverness Confusion
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The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

Difficulty First Interest Later
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There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

Accord Act Bolt Classes
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A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

Ashamed Deeds Gentleman Match
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If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Change Direction End Heading
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An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
Feared Government More Oppressive
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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Hereditary Ought Planning Posterity
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He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Difficult Find Good Modesty
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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Compassion Courage Moral Qualities
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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Deceived Distrust Friends Shameful
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

Acquired Efforts Encourage Endeavor
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If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

Fear Find Heart Look
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He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Compared Exercises Virtue Government
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It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Achieve Bad Difficult Easy
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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
Consideration Direction Magnitude Taken
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The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Better Good Thoughts Large
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The object of the superior man is truth.

Object Superior Man Truth
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They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Change Constant Happiness Must
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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Horizon Last Liberty Men
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I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Ability Concerned Knowing Men
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My mind is my own church.
Church Mind My Own Own
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Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

Concerned Fit Instead Known
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The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Ability Distressed Fact Limitations
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Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

Appointments Death Depend Determined
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'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Approve Business Conduct Conscience
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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

Brethren Country Good Mankind
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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Believe Believing Consist Consists
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Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

Best Blessing Even Every
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That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

Easily Esteem Lightly Obtain
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Human nature is not of itself vicious.
Human Human Nature Itself Nature
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Again Begin Our Over
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Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

Every Nickname Nicknames Title
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To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

Abolish Any Branches Establish
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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

Child Day May Must
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But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

Appearing Ask Liberty Nature
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It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

Acres Battle Cause Consequences
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Always Moderation Principle Temper
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Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

Basis Cannot Discover Every
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An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

Army Cannot Penetrate Principles
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It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

Affront Falsehood Treat Complaisance
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Changes Creates Flow Forward
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Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Attacks Head Heart Love
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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Begin Difficult Difficult Things Easy
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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

Despise Did Good Good Leader
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Accomplished Does Everything Hurry
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One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

Agree Few Finds Him
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Being Courage Deeply Gives
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Enlightenment Knowing Others Wisdom
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When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Compare Compete Content Everybody
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