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#1

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato

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#2

“There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.”
― Machiavelli Niccolo, The Prince

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#3

“…he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.”
― Machiavelli Niccolo, The Prince

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#4

“Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.”
― Machiavelli

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#5

“Appear as you may wish to be”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

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#6

“Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region in which it finds itself, so that for the future it may be able to choose its path with more certainty. But it is no dwelling-place for permanent settlement. Such can be obtained only through perfect certainty in our knowledge, alike of the objects themselves and of the limits within which all our knowledge of objects is enclosed.”
― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

tags: dogmatism, ideology, philosophy, reason, skepticism

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#7

“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
― David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays

tags: beauty, beholder, evil, god, perception, religion, religious-meaning

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#8

“Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.”
― David Hume

tags: politics

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#9

“Nothing appears more surprizing to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.”
― David Hume, Essays: Moral, Political and Literary

tags: submission

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#10

“The only chance of life lies in giving up all hope of it.”
― Lionel Giles, The Art of War

tags: hope, life

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#11

“No man is hurt but by himself”
― Diogenes of Sinope

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#12

“Behold! I've brought you a man.”
― Diogenes of Sinope

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#13

“Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend.”
― Diogenes

tags: time

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#14

“We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.”
― Diogenes Laertius

tags: awake, dreams

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#15

“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
― Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome

tags: commonwealth, corruption, government, law

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#16

“Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure”
― Tacitus

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#17

“If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.”
― Tacitus

tags: anarchism, authority, paranoia

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#18

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#19

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

tags: books

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#20

“In times of war, the law falls silent.

Silent enim leges inter arma”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: freedom, human-rights, law, war

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#21

“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#22

“Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.”
― Cicero

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#23

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: history

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#24

“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: candor, honesty, truth-telling

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#25

“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: cicero, learning, roman, school, study

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#26

“For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books

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#27

“The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philippics

tags: dead, eternity, living, memory

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#28

“While there's life, there's hope.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: hope, life

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#29

“The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: fame, immortality, inspirational

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#30

“It is a great thing to know your vices.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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