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4485 Philosopher Quotes

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Religion Cradles Despotism
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True happiness lies in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.

True happiness Senses Virtue
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Can we become other than what we are?

Can we Become What We are
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
Love Stronger Pride
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

Give Indiscriminately Passion suggest
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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.

Happiness Abstraction Imagination
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.

Nature Endowed Capacity Kindly feelings
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.

I assumed Everything Must yield Me
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The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.

The impossibility Outraging nature Greatest anguish
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.

Fear not Precautions Protective contrivances
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The past encourages me, the present electrifies me, and I have little fear for the future; and my hope is that the rest of my life shall by far surpass the extravagances of my youth

Past encourages Present electrifies Little fear Future
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The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.

Law Man's life Capital punishment Inadmissible
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Oh! my friend, never seek to corrupt the person whom you love, it can go further than you think...

My friend Corrupt Person You love
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

Lively sensation Its impressions Dependable
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It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.

Imitating Vices Others Earned
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Nothing quite encourages as does one's first unpunished crime.

Encourages First unpunished Crime
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It has pleased Nature so to make us that we attain happiness only by way of pain.
Pleasd nature Attain happiness Pain
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Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me

Self interest Men do Forming Important motive
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Anything forced is not beautiful

Anything forced Beautiful
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No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.

Human being The truth Happened By chance
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If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

Consider Virtues Mankind Growth
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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.

Moderation Things healthy Total abstinence Harmful
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There is a deep—and usually frustrated—desire in the heart of everyone to act with benevolence rather than selfishness, and one fine instance of generosity can inspire dozens more.

A deep Frustrated Benevolence
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.

Battles Decided more Morale Bodily strength
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A man may hate cruelty and lies, but if he’s never given an opportunity to show what he’s made of, no one will remember him when he dies.

Man Cruelty Lies Opportunity
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Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people's affairs, never turn to examine themselves.

Most people Upon looking People's affairs Examine themselves
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Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive!

Men Enemy troops Stands between Place
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People often say what is right and do what is wrong; but nobody can be in the wrong if he is doing what is right.

People Right Wrong Nobody can
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The man who doesn't know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
The man Don't know Own ability Ignorant
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform

Small risk A general Contempt Lead
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.

Eats Most pleasure Requires Sauce
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I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.

Will venture Teacher Pleasing Education
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Success Should Never Breed Complacency

Success Never Breed complacency
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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.

Whatever Determine Right Diligence endeavour
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I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.

Choosing Die Remain alive Freedom
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...men unite against none so readily as against those whom they see attempting to rule over them.
Men unite Readily Rule Over them
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The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

True test Leader Followers Adhere
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If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.

Covet riches Endevour Overcome Victorious
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.

A man Field Pant Farm
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All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen

Children Great men Opportunity Learning
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You know that neither numbers nor strength give the victory, but that side which, with the assistance of the gods, attacks with the greatest resolution is generally irresistible.

Neither numbers Strength Victory Assistance
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I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.

Impossible Remember Long poem Practice
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

Sweetest Sounds Praise
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Excess Grief Dead Madness
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.

Horse Beauty Tire Displays himself
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Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Intolerance Ambiguity Mark Authoritarian personality
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Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime

Every work Art Uncommitted crime
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People know what they want because they know what other people want.

People Know what Want
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Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
Love Find Show yourself Weak
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There is no right life in the wrong one.

Right life Wrong one
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