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4485 Philosopher Quotes

The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

World Loves Forgive Honest truth
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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty, and your animal spirits.

Laugh Person Health Beauty
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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
Love Liberty Power Ourselves
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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

Nature Eyes Understanding Hearts
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As is our confidence, so is our capacity

Our Confidence Capacity
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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Grace Defined Harmony Soul
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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

Pain Concern Gives Destruction
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Prosperity Great Teacher Adversity
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It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

Better Read Write Able
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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

Happy True Nature Age
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Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Zeal Will More Knowledge
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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

Great thoughts Practice Acts
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Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

Grace Women Effect Beauty
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

You Win Faith Victory
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Man Great Lifetime History
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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Hope Possession Wretched Low
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Those who can command themselves command others.

Who Command Themselves Others
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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Man Opinion Rules Morality
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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

Never Cease Think Manner
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To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead

Ways Thinking Follow Lead
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Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

Death Evils Come We
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The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

Wealth Nature Ideals Infinity
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Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
Happiness Life Important Friends
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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Death Exist Come Longer
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It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.

Friends Help Confident Knowledge
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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Develop Courage Happy Relationships
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

What Enjoy Constitutes Abundance
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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Man Pray Power Obtain
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Art Living well Dying One
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If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.

Prayers Men Humankind Evils
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

He Peace Mind Another
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not

Spoil Have Desiring
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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

Empty Argument Relieve Human
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We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

Pursue Happiness Present Absent
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Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

Nothing Sufficient Person Little
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Don't fear the gods, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.

Fears Worry Death Endure
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

Eat Friend Devour Lion
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We need to set our affections on one good man and keep him constantly before our eyes, so that we may live as if he were watching us and do everything as if he saw what we were doing.

Need Affections Good man Live
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The opinions held by most people about the gods are not true conceptions of them but fallacious notions, according to which awful penalties are meted out to the evil and the greatest of blessings to the good.

Opinions People Gods Evil
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We must laugh and philosophize and manage our households and look after our other affairs all at the same time, and never stop proclaiming the words of the true philosophy.

Laugh Philosophize Affairs Words
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.

Important Consequence Freedom
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If a person fights the clear evidence of his senses he will never be able to share in genuine tranquillity

Person Fights Senses Genuine
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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.

Vain Word Heal Man
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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body

You Die Mind Body
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Therefore, foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.

Foolish Fear Death Pain
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The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.

Noble man Wisdom Friendship Mortal
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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future

Life Gratitude Fears Future
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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help

Friendship Desirable Need Help
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It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Free Fear Rich Trouble
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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
Moderate Joys Life Abundance
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