September 2011
9 posts
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“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
– Socrates
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“The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.”
– Epicurus
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“Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.”
– Plutarch
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“I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then...”
– Socrates
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“Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.”
– Plato
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“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you...”
– Epicurus
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“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.”
– Aristotle
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“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
August 2011
30 posts
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“All wealth is the product of labor.”
– John Locke
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“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the...”
– Francis Bacon
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“Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.”
– Democritus
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“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod;...”
– Plutarch
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“The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one...”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just...”
– Aristotle
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“First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.”
– Epictetus
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“Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole...”
– Immanuel Kant
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“Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing...”
– Desiderius Erasmus
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“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in...”
– Rene Descartes
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“I was not, I was, I am, I do not care.”
– Epicurus (via jasminemei)
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“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre
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“You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday....”
– Epicurus
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“It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.”
– Democritus
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“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and...”
– Plato
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“We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.”
– Diogenes
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“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
– Francis Bacon
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“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
– Confucius
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“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”
– Thales
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“Be as you wish to seem.”
– Socrates
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“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
– Plato
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“As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.”
– John Locke
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“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
– Immanuel Kant
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“I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life,...”
– Plato
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“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face...”
– Desiderius Erasmus
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“We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do...”
– Nelson Mandela
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“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”
– Baruch Spinoza
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“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And...”
– Epicurus
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“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
– Aristotle