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#1

“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”
― Aristotle

tags: peace, peacemaking, politics, war

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#2

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

tags: life, love

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#3

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#4

“Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?”
― Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

tags: inspirational

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#5

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

tags: deceit, honesty, hypocrisy, morality, shock, top-8

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#6

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: life, simile

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#7

“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
― Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love | Guitar TAB Sheet Music Collection | Note-for-Note Transcriptions for Electric Guitar Players | Classic Psychedelic Rock Solos

tags: death, life

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#8

“We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: brotherhood, inspirational, wisdom

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#9

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
― Socrates

tags: independence, self-reliance

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#10

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
― Socrates

tags: gossip

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#11

“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: self-awareness, self-knowledge

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#12

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato

tags: philosophy

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#13

“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
― Plato

tags: philosophy, politics

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#14

“good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
― Plato

tags: laws, people

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#15

“Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”
― Plato

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#16

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
― Isaac Newton

tags: science, truth

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#17

“When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.”
― Plato

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#18

“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. ”
― Plato

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#19

“In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.”
― Plato

tags: philosophy, politics

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#20

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
― Plato

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#21

“You should not honor men more than truth.”
― Plato

tags: honesty, honor, secrecy, truth

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#22

“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”
― Plato

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#23

“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
― Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Vol. 3: American Statesmen

tags: criticism

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#24

“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
― Aristotle

tags: truth

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#25

“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”
― Aristotle

tags: dignity

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#26

“Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

tags: friends, friendship

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#27

“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#28

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: history

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#29

“Non nobis solum nati sumus.

(Not for ourselves alone are we born.)”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: duty, helping-others, latin, self

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#30

“What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: truth

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