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    Seneca
    “Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
    tags: philosophy, stoic, stoicism
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    Erich Fromm
    “That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”
    ― Erich Fromm, The Sane Society
    tags: mental-illness, sanity, society
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    Erich Fromm
    “Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”
    ― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
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    Socrates
    “The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
    ― Socrates
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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    Epictetus
    “Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: philosophers, philosophy
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    Baruch Spinoza
    “Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”
    ― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
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    Baruch Spinoza
    “I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.”
    ― Baruch Spinoza
    tags: philosophy
    454 likes

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    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
    1798 likes

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    Socrates
    “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
    ― Socrates
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  • #11
    Socrates
    “Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
    ― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates
    tags: contentment, philosophy
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  • #12
    Yuval Noah Harari
    “Consistency is the playground of dull minds.”
    ― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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    Yuval Noah Harari
    “One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.”
    ― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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    Albert Einstein
    “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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    Socrates
    “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: avarice, contentment, gluttony, greed
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    Socrates
    “Know thyself.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: inspirational
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    Catherynne M. Valente
    “It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.”
    ― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
    tags: catherynne-m-valente, heart, reading
    633 likes

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    Annie Proulx
    “I wish I knew how to quit you.”
    ― Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
    tags: infatuation, love-quotes, obsession, true-love
    592 likes

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    Socrates
    “We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: character, rectitude
    434 likes

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  • #20
    Socrates
    “Be as you wish to seem.”
    ― Socrates
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  • #21
    Socrates
    “Those who are hardest to love need it the most.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: love
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  • #22
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Nicolas Chamfort
    “A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
    ― Nicolas Chamfort
    tags: philosophy
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    “Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
    ― Terry Johnson, Insignificance
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-marilyn-monroe, philosophy
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    Margaret Mead
    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
    11483 likes

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  • #26
    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: philosophy, poetry
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  • #27
    Jonathan Swift
    “May you live every day of your life.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom
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    William Shakespeare
    “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
    ― William Shakespear, Hamlet
    tags: philosophy
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  • #29
    Richard Dawkins
    “We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: atheism, philosophy
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom
    7747 likes



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