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#1

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

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“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”
― Plato

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#3

“Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
― Plato

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#4

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

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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#5

“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
― Socrates

tags: marriage

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#6

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

tags: gossip

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#7

“Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

tags: inspirational, life

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#8

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom

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#9

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
― Aristotle

tags: happiness

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#10

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
― Aristotle

tags: friendship

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#11

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

tags: truth

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#12

“We make war that we may live in peace.”
― Aristotle

tags: war-peace

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#13

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness

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#14

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”
― Aristotle

tags: solitude

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#15

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.”
― Eugene Victor Debs

tags: authoritarianism, deception, exploitation, fundamentalism, nationalism, oppression, patriotism, religion, totalitarianism, tyranny

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#17

“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
― Thomas Hobbes

tags: deception, war

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#18

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

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#19

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#20

“Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)”
― Julius Caesar

tags: conqueror, imperialism, rome, war

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#21

“In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.”
― Julius Caesar

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#22

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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#23

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading

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#24

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: literature

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“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
― Plato

tags: discipline, education, mentoring, philosophy

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#26

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: book, inspirational

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#27

“No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.”
― Rush Limbaugh

tags: economy, government, prosperity, taxes, taxing

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#28

“You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: business, economy, taxes, taxing

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#29

“The power to tax is the power to destroy.”
― John Marshall

tags: economy, taxes, taxing

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#30

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
― Warren Buffett

tags: business

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