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4485 Philosopher Quotes

True peace can rarely be imposed from the outside; it must be born within and between communities through meetings and dialogue and then carried outward.

Peace Imposed Born Dialogue
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Our humanity is so beautiful, but it needs to be transformed

Humanity Beautiful Needs Transformed
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The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time.' He doesn't fight with time. He accepts it and cherishes it.

Friend Time Fight Cherishes
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The word love has been so abused by publicity and advertisements that we no longer know really what it means.

Word Love Abused Publicity
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Weakness, recognized, accepted, and offered, is at the heart of belonging, so it is at the heart of communion with another

Weakness Accepted Heart Communion
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An ethics of desire is good news for those of us who have become allergic to an ethics of law.

Ethics Desire Good news Law
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We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.

Work Peace Wisdom Love
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At the heart of the celebration, there are the poor. If they are excluded, it is not longer a celebration. A celebration must always be a festival of the poor.

Heart Celebration Poor Festival
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Look at your own poverty welcome it cherish it don't be afraid share your death because thus you will share your love and your life

Poverty Afraid Love Life
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Happiness comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives
Happiness Choose Moment Love
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I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes

Weakness Sharing Qualities Successes
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The language of elitism smells bad! It is not healthy to believe that we are the only ones to have captured truth and even less healthy to condemn others.

Language Elitism Believe Truth
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Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in God’s image; each one has a heart, a capacity to love and to be loved.

Person Culture Heart Love
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Wisdom is something that comes, little by little, through a lot of listening.

Wisdom Something Little Listening
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Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate.

Human Light Trust Love
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The strong need the weak as much as the weak need the strong

Strong Need Weak
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The belly laugh is the best way to evacuate anguish.

Laugh Best Evacuate Anguish
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He who is or has been deeply hurt has a RIGHT to be sure he is LOVED.

Deeply Hurt Right Loved
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When we judge, we are pushing people away; we are creating a wall, a barrier. When we forgive we are destroying barriers, we come closer to others.

Judge People Forgive Barriers
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Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want

Life Crises Moments Want
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Love is an act of endless forgiveness.
Love Act Forgiveness
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Power always has a direction. It is always downward, towards the weak but power is often confused with what is right

Power Direction Weak Confused
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You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Forget Fruits Belong Land
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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Souls Faith Great Individuals
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

Children Profession Waste Time
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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Fame Breath People Unwholesome
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We do not know what is really good or bad fortune

We Know Good Bad
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience Bitter Fruit Sweet
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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Afflication Happens You Defeat
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Difficult Nobly Earning Living
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

People Know Talkers Little
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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Force Obedience Legitimate Powers
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
World Reality Limits Imagination
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A feeble body weakens the mind.

Feeble Body Weakens Mind
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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Childhood Slep Reason
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Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

Man Right Risk Life
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We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Weak Foolish Gift Education
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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Gratitude Duty Right Expect
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Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Nations People Youth Older
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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Nature Never Deceives Ourselves
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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Course Opposite Custom
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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Silence Sadness Image Death
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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Remorse Prosperity Bitter Adversity
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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Falsehood Infinity Combinations Truth
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However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

Great Talent Act Writing
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Man Born Free Chains
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No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Man Natural Authority Fellow
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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Happiness Good Account Cook
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Wisdom Find Greater Kindness
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Virtue State War Live
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