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4485 Philosopher Quotes

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Acquaintances Ends Everywhere Foreign
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In war there is no prize for runner-up.

Prize Runner-Up War There
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In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

Arms Becomes Commander Dependence
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I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

Conservatives Liberals Trust Don't
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Action He Himself Man
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He that does good to another does good also to himself.

Also Another Does Good
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He who is brave is free.

Brave Free He Who
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Where fear is, happiness is not.

Fear Happiness Where Not
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Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Anticipation Expecting Greatest Impediment
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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Anxious Dependence Enjoy Future
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I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

Except Fact Ignorance Know
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Education Foundation State Youth
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Blushing is the color of virtue.
Blushing Color Virtue
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Athenian Citizen Greek World
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What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

Belongs Wine Drink Others
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I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

Away Child Cup Drinking
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There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

Between Difference Finger Fool
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No man is hurt but by himself.
Himself Hurt Man
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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Counselors Distinguish Generally Leaders
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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

Anybody Feelings Hurt Philosopher
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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Pupil Teacher Whip Why
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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

Face House Man Place
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The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

Art Master Rule Slave
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The great thieves lead away the little thief.

Great Lead Little Thief
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A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

Abide Bodies Friend Soul
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He has the most who is most content with the least.

Content Least Most
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I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

Gods Know Ought Whether
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Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

Animals Intelligent Man Most
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The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

Polluted Sun Privies Too
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

Dogs Fewest Good Greatest
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We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Ears Less Listen More
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It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Gods Little Men Want
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The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

Bears Disgust Vine Grapes
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I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

Rascals Refuse Set Teeth
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Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Capable Counselors Distinguishing Generally
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As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Ardent Enemies Former Friends
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I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Remove Side Sunshine Take
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Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Neglect Pleasing Practice Sound
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When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

Wisest Priests Contemptible Look
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Attempt Believe Come Enigma
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Always Being Coward Dreams
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

Against Also Book Books
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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
Better Blame Dream Real
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Translation is the art of failure.

Art Failure The Translation
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Being Book Concepts Contains
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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Another Courage Fear Fearful
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A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

Dream Dreams Many Nothing
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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Comic Feeling Humor Opposite
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Being Capacity Consumed Continuing
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Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Before Die Fear Instead
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