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“I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: laughter, pain

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“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: political-philosophy

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“it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

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“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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“Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Discourses

tags: driving-forces, hate, impulses, love, men

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#7

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: diplomacy, strategy, victory, war

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“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: strategy

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“Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: politics, success, war

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“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”
― Sun tzu, The Art of War

tags: deception, strategy, tactics, war, warfare

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“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: business, strategy, war

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#12

“To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.”
― Sun Tzu

tags: enemy, sun-tzu, war

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#13

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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#14

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
― Socrates

tags: education, enlightenment, learning, lifelong-learning, mentorship

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#15

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

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#16

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
― Voltaire

tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war

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#17

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

tags: answers, man, questions, thinking

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#18

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
― Voltaire

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“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

(Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)”
― Voltaire

tags: enmity, humor, prayers, religion, ridicule, satire, social-justice, social-life

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“Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.”
― Voltaire

tags: books, reading

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#21

“God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”
― Voltaire

tags: god, voltaire

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“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
― Voltaire, Candide, or, Optimism

tags: mortality

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#23

“The more a man knows, the less he talks.”
― Voltaire

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#24

“The infinitely small have a pride infinitely great.”
― Voltaire

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#25

“All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.”
― Otto Weininger

tags: the-decline-of-the-west

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“Napoleon, the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminals, and therefore, not geniuses. One can understand him by thinking of the tremendous intensity with which he tried to escape from himself. There is this element in all the conquerors, great or small. Just because he had great gifts, greater than those of any emperor before him, he had greater difficulty in stifling the disapproving voice within him. The motive of his ambition was the craving to stifle his better self.”
― Otto Weininger, Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles

tags: action, ambition, conqueror, emperor, escape, genious, leader

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“What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: friedrich-nietzche, philosophy

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#28

“Convictions are prisons.”
― Friedrich Nietzche, The Birth of Tragedy/Seventy-five Aphorisms/The Anti-Christ

tags: convictions, inspirational

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#29

“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
― Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

tags: genius

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#30

“What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: cities, life, monsters

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