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4485 Philosopher Quotes

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Know Knowing Nothing Only
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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Greatest Honor Live Pretend
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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Best Blessings General God
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An honest man is always a child.
Always Child Honest Honest Man
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Easily Employ Gain Hard
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Honest Live Man Politician
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Except Fact Ignorance Know
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Employs He His How
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Blessings Death Greatest Human
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Come Deadliest Deepest Desires
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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Exists Know Knowing Knowledge
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Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Drink Eat Live Only
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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Because Everywhere Extension Fear
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Chiefly Good Good Life Life
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Based Conception Emotional Illusion
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Let him that would move the world first move himself.

First Him Himself Move
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Becomes Equal His Made
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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Common Contented Depart Equal
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All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Divine Immortal Men Righteous
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Celibacy Course He Man
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Bait Beauty Delight His
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Decided Deliver Find Inspiration
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The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

Gods Only Poets Interpreters
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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Bad Bad One Become Get
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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Art Constant Continue Fall
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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Appear Desire Endeavor Gain
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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
End Following God Him
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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Against Away Courage Does
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

About Around Each How
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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Accord Apply Death Directly
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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

A Good Man After Death Either
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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

Advances Back Backwards Beginning
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Compensation Demand Freedom Freedom Of Speech
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Away Paradox Professor Take
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Don't forget to love yourself.
Forget Love Love Yourself To Love
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Breathless Haste Hurry Men
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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Change Changes Does God
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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

Dare Footing Lose Oneself
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Anxiety Freedom Dizziness Fear
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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Common Common Denominator Denominator Equalizer
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It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Admit Always Fruitful Had
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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Advise Comfortably Port Safe
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Afraid Becoming Capable Doing
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During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

Danger First Greatest Greatest Danger
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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Cannot Immediately Necessary Patience
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It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Concentrate Essential Important Most
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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
Between Bottom Enmity Indifference
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I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

Advice Both Either Friendly
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I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Cannot Chess Feel Game
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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Begins Birth Could Cry
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