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  • #122
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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  • #123
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
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  • #124
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: inspirational
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  • #125
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • #126
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • #127
    Baltasar Gracián
    “For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching.”
    ― Balthasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
    tags: advice, joke, teaching
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  • #128
    Baltasar Gracián
    “Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.”
    ― Balthasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
    tags: cunning, deceit, truth
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  • #129
    Baltasar Gracián
    “Be first the master of yourself”
    ― Balthasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
    tags: wisdom
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  • #130
    Baltasar Gracián
    “A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.”
    ― Balthasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
    tags: beauty, mirror
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  • #131
    Baltasar Gracián
    “The truths that matter most to us come always half spoken.”
    ― Balthasar Gracian
    tags: spoken, truth
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  • #132
    Democritus
    “Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.”
    ― Democritus
    tags: philosophy, science
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  • #133
    Democritus
    “Many much-learned men have no intelligence.”
    ― Democritus
    tags: intelligence, knowledge
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  • #134
    Democritus
    “Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.”
    ― Democritus
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  • #135
    Epictetus
    “If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: history, humility, philosophy
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  • #136
    Epictetus
    “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: contentment, happiness, money, wealth
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  • #137
    Epictetus
    “Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: philosophers, philosophy
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  • #138
    Epictetus
    “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: happiness, way-to-be
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  • #139
    Epictetus
    “Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: anxiety, mankind
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  • #140
    Samuel Johnson
    “Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
    ― Samuel Johnson, Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]
    tags: curiosity
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  • #141
    Samuel Johnson
    “Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.”
    ― Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
    tags: abilities, equality, fear, gender, intelligence, men, misogyny, skills, strength, superiority, suppression, weakness, women
    356 likes

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  • #142
    Samuel Johnson
    “Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”
    ― Samuel Johnson, The Rambler
    tags: curiosity, lifelong-learning
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  • #143
    Samuel Johnson
    “My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. ”
    ― Samuel Johnson
    tags: cynical, funny, humour, review
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  • #144
    Samuel Johnson
    “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
    ― Samuel Johnson
    tags: patriotism
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  • #145
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
    ― Alexis de Tocqueville
    tags: misattributed
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  • #146
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
    tags: irreligion, religion
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  • #147
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
    tags: arguement, debate, disagreement, dispute, heat, ice, thoughts
    232 likes

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  • #148
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
    tags: human-nature, malice, people, selfishness
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  • #149
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples. ”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
    tags: philosophy, religion
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  • #150
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
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  • #151
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
    tags: foreign-language, superficial-knowledge
    60 likes



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