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Plato: Arguments derived from...

Plato: Arguments derived from...

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

Source: Phaedo.
-- Plato, (May 21...

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Plato: The beginning is...

Plato: The beginning is...

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Source: The Republic. Book...

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: Those that are...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: Those that are...

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of...

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Emile M Cioran: All that shimmers...

Emile M Cioran: All that shimmers...

All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and...

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Emile M Cioran: Consciousness is much...

Emile M Cioran: Consciousness is much...

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

Source:...

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Emile M Cioran: No one can...

Emile M Cioran: No one can...

No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up.

Source: In The...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The surest way...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The surest way...

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The anarchist and...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The anarchist and...

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.

Source: The Antichrist, aph....

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Robert Penn Warren: The urge to...

Robert Penn Warren: The urge to...

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch...

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Robert Penn Warren: Poets, we know,...

Robert Penn Warren: Poets, we know,...

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about...

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Ivan Turgenev: If we wait...

Ivan Turgenev: If we wait...

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never...

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Florence Scovel Shinn: We cannot always...

Florence Scovel Shinn: We cannot always...

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we...

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Thomas ? Kempis: Permit no hour...

Thomas ? Kempis: Permit no hour...

Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Mahatma Gandhi: What is a...

Mahatma Gandhi: What is a...

What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he...

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Alice Walker: People tend to...

Alice Walker: People tend to...

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only...

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Lewis Carroll: Now here, you...

Lewis Carroll: Now here, you...

Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else,...

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Italo Calvino: It is not...

Italo Calvino: It is not...

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

Source: Marco Polo, in...

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Margaret Atwood: Sons branch out,...

Margaret Atwood: Sons branch out,...

Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Margaret Atwood: A divorce is...

Margaret Atwood: A divorce is...

A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you.

Source: In...

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Kingsley Amis: He was of...

Kingsley Amis: He was of...

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was...

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