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4485 Philosopher Quotes

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself

Conquers Demolish Commits Great error.
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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Titles Honor Men
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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
One Deceives Allow
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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

Destroyed Treated Revenge Slight injury
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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions

Simple Inclined Deceiver Lack
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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
Willing Everything Share Glory
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To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

People Prince Understand Nature
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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
Wish Obeyed Command
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

Benefits Conferred Gradually Taste better.
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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Secure Feared Loved
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Prince Government Dangerous Elements
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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Hatred Gained Good Work
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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

Prince Never lack Legitimate Promise
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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Change Leaves Establishment
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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Promise Necessity Past Broken
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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Men Rise Ambition Attack
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

Tardiness Rob Opportunity Dispatch
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Shrink Offending Inspire Fear
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I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Interested Preserving Status quo Overthrow
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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Attribute Fortune Achieved
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A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Ruler Faith Interest
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Mankind Fickle Hypocritical Greedy
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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Surer Decay Country Religion
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Double Pleasure Deceive
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If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Injury Severe Vengeance Feared
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Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Anything Achieved Danger
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It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

Presupposed Arrange law Evil
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

Either Everything Makes Poison
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Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

Better Cases Composed Doubtful
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

Because Earth Elements Extract
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

Artistic Artists Been Desired
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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

Art Dreams Great GreatArt
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A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
Another Breath Causes Flow
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

Art Healing Mind Must
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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

Create Desires Earth Flows
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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

Also Art Before Consist
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Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

Alchemy Although Considered Contempt
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But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?

Body Created Cures Greater
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

Come Dreams Elements Fantasy
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
Accepted Come Dreams Great
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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

Bread Daily DailyBread Grants
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For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.

Another Bread Country Different
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

Alone Anyone Awakening Back
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

About Account Basis Distress
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

Aim Alchemy Consider Gold
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Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

Alchemy Astronomy Ethics Four
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

Also Bean Fig Gold
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Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.

Because Deemed Good Helps
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Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

Alone Attacks Because Body
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The dose makes the poison.

Dose Makes Poison
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