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    Murray N. Rothbard
    “It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.”
    ― Murray N. Rothbard, Education: Free & Compulsory
    tags: education, school
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    Murray N. Rothbard
    “It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.”
    ― Murray N. Rothbard
    tags: anarchy, austrian-economics, austrian-school-of-economics, charity, coercion, communism, free-markets, freedom, libertarian, liberty, philosophy, socialism, statism, virtue, voluntaryism, welfare
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    Murray N. Rothbard
    “No action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen.”
    ― Murray N. Rothbard
    tags: freedom, virtue
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    Murray N. Rothbard
    “To be moral, an act must be free.”
    ― Murray N. Rothbard
    tags: freedom, virtue
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    Murray N. Rothbard
    “War is Mass Murder, Conscription is Slavery, Taxation is Robbery.”
    ― Murray N. Rothbard
    tags: anarcho-capitalism, economy, politics
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    Albert Camus
    “Le seul moyen d'affronter un monde sans liberté est de devenir si absolument libre qu'on fasse de sa propre existence un acte de révolte. ”
    ― Albert Camus, The Rebel
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    Herodotus
    “Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.”
    ― Herodotus, The Histories
    tags: power-helplessness
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    Marcus Porcius Cato
    “Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public property in riches and luxury.”
    ― Cato the Elder
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    Emil M. Cioran
    “The state of health is a state of nonsensation, even nonreality. As soon as we cease to suffer, we cease to exist.”
    ― Emil Cioran, Drawn and Quartered
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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
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    Albert Camus
    “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Albert Camus
    “Live to the point of tears.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: life, living
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    Albert Camus
    “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: beatitudes, blessed, unbreakable
    2984 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: autumn
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    Albert Camus
    “Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
    ― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942
    tags: carpe-diem, future, present
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    Albert Camus
    “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: on-fiction
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    Albert Camus
    “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: civilization, writers, writing
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    Albert Camus
    “Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”
    ― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959
    tags: atheism, god, religion
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    Albert Camus
    “People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Fall
    tags: judgement
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    Albert Camus
    “Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: maxim, perfection
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    Epicurus
    “If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.”
    ― Epicurus
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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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    Epictetus
    “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: contentment, happiness, money, wealth
    1322 likes



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