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Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
Edward de Bono
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Baruch Spinoza
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
Voltaire
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Augustine
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You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.
Paulo Coelho
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Descartes
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There are people who make us suffer. It is because they are suffering themselves and spill their pains over, at anybody facing. They are their first victims. Instead of punishment they should be cured.
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What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.
Mark Twain
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
Epictetus
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Observing the problems from the above helps us to comprehend the entire scene from a higher perspective. Then the problems would not be as important as what they seemed to be.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true happiness dare live.
Bernard Russell
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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant
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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honour titles.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire
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True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn
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Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Carl Jung
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The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by similar gradations.
David Hume
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Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.
Taisen Deshimaru
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It’s not that I’m so smart. It’s just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
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More is lost by indecision than by wrong decision.
Cicero
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain
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The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which can best accommodate their duties to their inclinations.
Immanuel Kant
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Seek not the favour of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel Kant
