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I love quotations, here are some of my favorites:
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. Plato
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. Plato
The unexamined life was not worth living. Socrates
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. Georg Hegel
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man. Joseph de Maistre
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know. Epictetus
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness. Blaise Pascal
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. Blaise Pascal
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. Herbert Spencer
That which is not good for the beehive cannot be good for the bees. Marcus Aurelius
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. Rene Descartes
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Rene Descartes
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
George Santayana
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. George Santayana
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. D.H. Lawrence
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
T.S. Eliot
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