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