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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. Lao Tzu
Will Made Thieves Prominent Laws More Order
When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish. Lao Tzu
Patriotism Nation Strife Patriots Then Filled Flourish
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. Martin Heidegger
Life Death Myself Anxiety Will Face Free My Life Become Only Take Squarely Acknowledge Then Pettiness
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? Plato
Thoughts You Sleeping State Our Dream Talking Another How Prove Waking Whether Moment Awake
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. Plato
Life Death Good Man Good Man Evil A Good Man Happen After Either
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand. Sun Tzu
Battle Before Few Temple General Wins Calculations Makes Loses His Beforehand Who Many Fought
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. Thomas Carlyle
Achievement Man Achieve Nothing Every Develop Simply Obstacle Powers Course His Accomplishment Stops Who Strengthening Muscle Desires
Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided. Aristotle
Good Character Impossible Men Whatever Believe Think Others Good Men Exact More Divided Absolutely Generally True Spoken Make Him Readily Opinions Question Than Personal Achieved Where Us Persuasion Speaker Certainty Fully Credible Speech
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. Baruch Spinoza
Motivational Wax Indignant Weep Understand
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give. Bertrand Russell
Life Love Best Intimacy Those Mutual Give Never Missed Known Intense Who Deep Companionship Thing
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. Blaise Pascal
Man Cause Evil Single Sit Still Human Inability Room
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear? Confucius
You Heart Fear Own Nothing Worry Find About Wrong Look Your
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. David Hume
Mind Beauty Exists Which Them Things
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. Epictetus
Reputation Difficulty More Greater Glory Pilots Storms Gain Skillful
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. Francis Bacon
Life Dinner Life Is A Miserable Breakfast Lunch Bachelor Fine Flat
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. Friedrich Nietzsche
Love Health Food Entertainment Unhappy Will Men Power Live Satisfied Everything Remain Demon Waits Place Them Necessity Desire
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. George Santayana
Art World Dream Dreamer Artist Actual Consenting
We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free. Jiddu Krishnamurti
People Free Something Longer Famous Famous People Want Moment
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. Lao Tzu
You Virtue Understand Realize Defect
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Life Death Experience Live Those Temporal Take Timelessness Duration Infinite Eternal Eternal Life Mean Eternity Then Who Event Present Belongs
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Man Will Long Unlocked Rather Push Opens Him Does Occur Imprisoned Than Door Room Pull
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. Meister Eckhart
Inspirational Soul Heart Yourself Human Being Own Thirty Hides Ourselves Inside Bear Know Know Yourself Learn Go Cover Covering Human Ox Being Depths Your Hard Skins Forty Ground Many Thick Why Things
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. Michel de Montaigne
Life You Value Of Life Will Value Find Lies Tale Days Make Years Depends Whether Length Them Use Your Satisfaction
Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life - I don't mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Life Smile Will Nothing Saved Destroying Triumphant Seems He Smiles Him Knows Least Survive Ironic Person Disillusioned Mean Grandfather Who Resist
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master. Plato
Good Will Master He Who Servant
The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself. Ramana Maharshi
Nature Thoughts Man Strong Evil Every Think Weak Habits Divine He Himself Greatest Real His Error Every Man Desires
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