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    Aristotle
    “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: patience
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    Aristotle
    “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: greek, mentors, philosophy, teachers
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.”
    ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
    tags: evil, injustice, justice, morality
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    Victor Hugo
    “Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: fairness, goodness, justice
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    Baruch Spinoza
    “Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.”
    ― Baruch Spinoza
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    Montesquieu
    “There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. (Cambridge University Press (September 29, 1989)”
    ― Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
    tags: criminal-justice, criminal-justice-system, injustice
    219 likes

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    Amartya Sen
    “The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit these acts as a Muslim’, or ‘as a Chinese you should give priority to this national engagement’) is not only an imposition of an external and arbitrary priority, but also the denial of an important liberty of a person who can decide on their respective loyalties to different groups (to all of which he or she belongs).”
    ― Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice
    tags: multiculturalism
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    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, philosophy
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.”
    ― Mohandas Gandhi
    tags: peace, religion
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    Aristotle
    “A friend to all is a friend to none.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: friendship
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    Sohrab Sepehri
    “جای مردان سیاست بنشانید درخت / تا هوا تازه شود”
    ― سهراب سپهری
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    Horatius
    “Carpe diem."

    (Odes: I.11)”
    ― Horace, The Odes of Horace
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    Voltaire
    “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
    4083 likes

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    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #15
    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
    16206 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: anarchy, lies
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    Emma Goldman
    “Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.”
    ― Emma Goldman
    tags: anarchy, forgiveness, understanding-others
    394 likes

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    Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
    “la propriété, c'est le vol!”
    ― Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Théorie de la propriété
    tags: anarchy, economics, philosophy
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    Herman Melville
    “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
    ― Herman Melville
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    Oliver Goldsmith
    “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
    ― Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith
    tags: misattributed-to-confucius, success
    2233 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, success
    2365 likes

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    Walt Disney Company
    “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ”
    ― Walt Disney
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  • #23
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
    109288 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: day, death, night, rebirth, reincarnation, sleep
    2421 likes

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    Sadegh Hedayat
    “اگر مرگ نبود همه ارزویش میکردند”
    ― صادق هدایت
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    Sadegh Hedayat
    “ستمگری و کشتار نسبت به حیوانات، دشنام و ناسزا به شرافت و مقام انسانیت است.”
    ― صادق هدایت / Sadegh Hedayat
    20 likes

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    Paulo Coelho
    “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational
    20088 likes

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    Anaïs Nin
    “People living deeply have no fear of death.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
    tags: death
    1791 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “God has no religion.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: god, religion
    5311 likes

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  • #30
    Dante Alighieri
    “Do not be afraid; our fate
    Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, Inferno
    tags: faith, fate, fear
    3289 likes



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