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4485 Philosopher Quotes

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it

Greater Difficulty More Glory
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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

Wish Rich Money Desires
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The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Time Withdraw Yourself Crowd
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.

He Least Needs Tomorrow
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Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life, for the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Wisdom Life Greatest Friendship
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The purpose of all knowledge, metaphysical as well as scientific, is to achieve what Epicurus called ataraxia, freedom from irrational fears and anxieties of all sorts—in brief, peace of mind.

Knowledge Achieve Freedom Mind
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The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.

Wise man Share Great Treasure
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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

We Someone Eat Something
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Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.

Death Body Sensation Nothing
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Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Misfortune Wise Reason Life
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Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.

Happiness Man's Aim Life
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Being happy is knowing how to be content with little
Being Happy Knowing Content
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To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

Rich End Change Worries
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Live your life without attracting attention.

Live Life Attracting Attention
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Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.

Pleasure Choice Pain Soul
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The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.

Noble Soul Wisdom Friendship
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The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Misfortune Wise Prosperity Fool
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

Pleasure End Living Happily
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Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.

Only Man Peace Mind
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Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

Justice Contract Men Harming
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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

Time Father Truth Mind
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Time takes all and gives all.

Times Takes Gives All
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Do you not see what damage has been done to science through this: i.e. pedants wishing to be philosophers; to treat of natural things, and mix themselves with and decide about things Divine?

Damage Science Philosophers Divine
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What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?

Stupid Pain Future Present
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Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever

Divine Love Support Liberty
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There is no law governing all things.

There Law Governing Things
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The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.

Soul Way Body Lives
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It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Proof Mind Truth People
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The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within.

Greatest Comfort Peace Selfishness
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In egotism, one is assailed by fear, he passes his life totally troubled by fear.

Egotism Fear Life Troubled
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He alone is a man who keeps his word: Not that he has one thing in the heart, and another on the tongue.

Man Word Heart Tongue
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If you are strong, torture not the weak, And thus lay not the axe to thy empire.

Strong Torture Weak Empire
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The ignorant person is totally blind he does not appreciate the value of the jewel

Ignorant Person Value Jewel
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He who trusts, however, in an oath on God, His Protection also in He; in need, He shows the Path.

Trusts Oath God Need
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Fruitful is the entire life of those, who feel hunger for the Name of the Lord in their minds.

Life Feel Lord Minds
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I tell the truth; listen everyone. Only those who have Loved, will realise the Lord

Truth Everyone Loved Lord
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The Lord Himself reveals the Path, He Himself is the Doer of deeds.

Lord Reveals Path Deeds
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Day and night, meditate forever on the Lord.
Day Night Meditate Lord
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Egotism is such a terrible disease, in the love of duality, they do their deeds

Egotism Disease Love Deeds
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The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.

Secret Theory Truth Exist
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The whole world thus becomes integrated as a spectacle into the domestic universe.

World Integrated Domestic Universe
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Take your desires for reality!" can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power.

Desires Reality Slogan Power
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It is useless to dream of revolution through content, useless to dream of a revelation through form, because the medium and the real are now in a single nebula whose truth is indecipherable.

Dream Revolution Form Truth
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We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately we have never believed in them.

Visible Myth Origin Believed
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish-fulfillment

Dreams Statistics Form Wish
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Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true

Nothing Enigmatic Reality True
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We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.
Live World Information Meaning
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Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.

Philosophy Leads Death Suicide
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History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

History Repeats Farce Itself
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Power floats like money, like language, like theory.

Power Money Language Theory
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