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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. Thomas Carlyle
Strong Weak Obstacle Became Block Pathway Which Granite
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things. Thomas Carlyle
Man About Something Arguing Debating Man Lives Many Lives Believing Things
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. Albert Camus
World Occasion Understand Order Turn Away
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. Albert Camus
People Some People Other Some Talk While Sleep
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. Albert Camus
Government Sometimes Nothing Definition More Policy Conscience
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. Albert Camus
Silence World Our Ears Those Melody Carry Perceive Never Occasionally Sounds Escape Quiet Same Vibrations Which Eternally Notes Us Chord Even
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. Albert Camus
Future Freedom Culture Gift Creation Society Relative Perfect Implies Without Authentic Jungle Any Even Why
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. Albert Camus
Hope Fool Coward He Condition Human Human Condition Who
'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth. Annie Besant
History Man Natural Impossible Hero Solar Moon Myth Inevitable Year Positions Changing Relative Way Indeed Sun Easter Dates Point Anniversary Calculated Calculating Historical Very Festival Fixing Movable The History Of Event
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. Aristotle
Mom Own Fathers Fonder More Because Mothers Than Children Certain
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them. Arthur Schopenhauer
Time Great You Live Too Related Minds See Great Minds Magnitude Because Buildings Close Square Cannot Which Span Little Them Stand Standing Brief
Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark. Arthur Schopenhauer
Journalists Like Dogs Begin Moves Anything Bark Ever
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. Arthur Schopenhauer
Man Seems More Mysterious Him Existence Unintelligent Less
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. Avicenna
Religion World Men Divided Wit Who
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. Baltasar Gracian
Lion Man Dog Nothing Thirty Seventy Camel Sixty Eighty Ape Fifty Forty Twenty Serpent Peacock
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. Baruch Spinoza
Beautiful Nature You Confused Ugly Confusion Beauty Imagination Relation Our Deformity Would Only Attribute Order Either Warn Things
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad. Baruch Spinoza
Good Natural State Bad Civil Only Sin Conceived Common Where Cannot Natural State Consent
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. Bertrand Russell
Good Cruelty Hell Invented Delight Why Conscience
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. Bertrand Russell
People Other Secret Virtues About No-One Gossips
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. Bertrand Russell
Power Others Pleasure Consists Ourselves More Preventing Generally Greatest Greatest Pleasure Themselves Acquisition Next Enjoying
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell
Patriotism Willingness Trivial Reasons
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason. Blaise Pascal
Man Some Some Things Beyond Supreme Show Reason Function Things
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. Confucius
Happiness Wisdom Change Must Would Would-Be Constant Often Who
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. Confucius
Knowledge You Allow Know Hold Thing
When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. Confucius
Character Worth Think Ourselves See Examine Contrary Them Turn Persons Should
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. Confucius
Life Death Depend Honors Determined Heaven Riches Appointments
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