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#1

“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

tags: suicide

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“Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?”
― Emil Cioran

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#3

“Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.”
― Emil Cioran

tags: life, new-day

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#4

“Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself.”
― Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay

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#5

“What do you do from morning to night?"

"I endure myself.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

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#6

“Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”
― Emil Cioran

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“Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.”
― Emil Cioran

tags: misanthropy, philosophy

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#8

“Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

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#9

“Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?”
― Diogenes of Sinope

tags: feelings, offend, offense, philosopher, philosophers, philosophy

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#10

“When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, "And I sentenced them to stay at home.”
― Diogenes

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#11

“Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.”
― Diogenes of Sinope

tags: good, philosophers, philosophy, philsopher

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#12

“Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.”
― Diogenes of Sinope

tags: cynicism, philosophy

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#13

“Cuanto más conozco a la gente, más quiero a mi perro.”
― Diogenes of Sinope

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#14

“In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.”
― Diogenes of Sinope

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#15

“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.”
― Diogenes

tags: education

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#16

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

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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#17

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom

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#18

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, philosophy

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#19

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
― Socrates

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#20

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
― Socrates

tags: philosophy

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#21

“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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#22

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

tags: independence, self-reliance

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#23

“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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#24

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: apology, knowing, nothing, paradox, plato, republic, socrates, socratic, wisdome

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#25

“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
― Socrates

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#26

“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
― Anonymous

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#27

“Know thyself.”
― Socrates

tags: inspirational

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#28

“Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.”
― Socrates

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#29

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Socrates

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#30

“understanding a question is half an answer”
― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates

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