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He who has great power should use it lightly. - Seneca The Younger

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. - Baruch Spinoza

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. - Immanuel Kant

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. - David Hume

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. - Baron De Montesquieu

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems ... - Arthur Schopenhauer

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized ... - Confucius

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but ... - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only ... - J. K. Rowling

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything ... - William James

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas ... - Aristotle

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

Fate will find a way.

A king of infinite space

To be is to be perceived

Born free. Taxed to death.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Before all else, be armed.

The good is the beautiful.

Nature abhors annihilation.

Man is the cruelest animal.

Man is condemned to be free

Time takes all and gives all

Simplify, simplify, simplify.

The map is not the territory.

We are spirits clad in veils.

A man's character is his fate.

We turn from the light to see.

True time is four-dimensional.

Dancers are the athletes of God.

Every artist is an unhappy lover.

The face is the soul of the body.

Man is the measure of all things.

Beware of the person of one book.

He that is jealous is not in love.

Humility is the daughter of truth.

Only the impossible lasts forever.

There is moderation in everything.

By daily dying, I have come to be.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

Everything flows and nothing stays.

All wealth is the product of labor.

To philosophize is to learn to die.

Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.

I guess I was a philosophical child.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices.

Football is the ballet of the masses.

World history is a court of judgment.

The motive power of democracy is love

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