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4485 Philosopher Quotes

A life without festivity is a long road without an inn.

Life Festivity Long road Inn
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Greed Do Talking Listen
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No one regards the things before his feet, But views with care the regions of the sky.

Regard Things Views Sky
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Men ask for health in their prayers to the gods: they do not realize that the power to achieve it lies in themselves. Lacking self-control, they perform contrary actions and betray health to their desires.

Men Health Prayers Desires
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

Wise Good Man Whole earth
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

Education Prosperous Refuge Unfortunate
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It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.

Think Something Beautiful New
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.

Life Unexamined Worth Living
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Heals Wisdom Soul Passions
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Tis hard to fight with anger but the prudent man keeps it under control.

Fight Anger Prudent Under control
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Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

Nature Education Transform Creates
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.

Soul Intellect Same things
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There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.

Many Know Lacking Wisdom
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.

Man Enslaved Wealth Honest
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.

Good Breeding Men Character
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It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Hard Desire Control Man
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Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.

Nature Truth Deep Bottom
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Word is a shadow of a deed.

Word Shadow Deed
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

Moderations Greatest Pleasures Pains
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If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few.

Know Contentment Deeds Few
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The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures

Brave man Overcomes Enemies Pleasures
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The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

Youth Pride Old Age
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

Sins Remembered Good Deeds
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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

We Lie Truth Bitter
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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

Talks Order People Control
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There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my

Things Force Adjust Change
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Moral Precept Something Inconvenient
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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
Passions Elevate Soul Great things
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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Only Passion Happiness
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Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others

Happiest People Give Others
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Life is but a series of misunderstandings.

Life Series Misunderstandings
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People stop thinking when they cease to read.

People Thinking Cease Read
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A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.

Nation Belief God Law
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I am wholly yours - you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.

I Life You Will
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

We Catch Vices Virtues
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When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the hearts of others.

Know Read Wisdom Heart
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

Man Nature Command Human beings
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Within this culture wealth is measured by one's ability to consume and destroy.

Culture Wealth Consume Destroy
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Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

Writing Easy Page Technical
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Love does not imply pacifism.

Love Imply Pacifism
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Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.

Like Under Lie Cry
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We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

We Hope Culture Souls
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If your community is founded on an injustice, that injustice cannot be questioned.

Community Injustice Questioned
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War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

War Delightful Who Experience
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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Thinking What Hope Happen
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Point Happiness Man Willing
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Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Give Light Darkness Disappear
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No one respects a talent that is concealed.

No one Respects Talent Concealed
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He who allows oppression shares the crime.

He Allows Oppression Crime
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Don't give your advice before you are called upon.

Give Advice Called upon
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