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    Epicurus
    “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: desire, gratitude, hope
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    Epicurus
    “He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: philosophy, satisfaction, science
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.

    [Letter to William Short, 31 October 1819]”
    ― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
    tags: epicurean, epicureanism, epicurus, greece, moral-philosophy, philosophy-rome, secular-ethics, secular-morality
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    Epicurus
    “The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.”
    ― Epicurus
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    Epicurus
    “You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”
    ― Epicurus
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I cannot live without books.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: books
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: inspiration, motivation
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: freedom, government, politics
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: books, honesty, wisdom
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: atheism, philosophy, religion
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: banks, debt, deficit-spending, government, loans, political-science, politics
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: writing
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: principle, style
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: education, illiteracy, journalism, literature
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: hard-work, luck
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: politics
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: liberty, political-philosophy, politics
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...”
    ― Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
    tags: civil-rights, geometry, opinions, physics, science
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in catholic countries they are to Atheism. Diderot, D'Alembert, D’Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been among the most virtuous of men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.

    [Letter to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814]”
    ― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
    tags: atheism, baron-d-holbach, condorcet, d-alembert, d-holbach, deism, denis-diderot, diderot, jean-le-rond-d-alembert, marquis-de-condorcet, paul-henri-d-holbach, platonic, platonic-christianity, protestant
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
    tags: government, history, scope-of-government
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    Thomas Paine
    “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
    ― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America
    tags: education, experience, wisdom
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    Thomas Paine
    “These are the times that try men's souls.”
    ― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
    tags: adversity, american-revolution, trials
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    Thomas Paine
    “Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
    ― thomas paine, Rights of Man
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    George Washington
    “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
    ― George Washington
    tags: confession, excuses, honesty, lies, lying, truth
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    George Washington
    “It is better to be alone than in bad company.”
    ― George Washington
    tags: character, honor, reputation
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    George Washington
    “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
    ― George Washington
    tags: freedom, freedom-of-speech
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    George Washington
    “My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”
    ― George Washington
    tags: mother
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    George Washington
    “But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.”
    ― George Washington
    tags: humbleness, remember
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    George Washington
    “Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”
    ― George Washington
    tags: duty, happiness, honor
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  • #30
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
    135491 likes



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