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Confucius
-551 - -479It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Friedrich Nietzsche
1844 - 1900That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Hannah Arendt
1906 - 1975The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are ...
Henry David Thoreau
1817 - 1862Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Jean-Paul Sartre
1905 - 1980Man is condemned to be free.
Laozi
-604He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Michel Foucault
1926 - 1984We are subjected to the production of truth through power and we cannot exercise power except through the production of ...
Plato
427 - 347Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 - 1882For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Abdolkarim Soroush
1945Freedom of expression is the foundation of democracy.
Adam Ferguson
1723 - 1816The more social the intercourse of men becomes, the more cautious does every individual need to be of giving offense to ...
Adam Smith
1723 - 1790No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Adam Weishaupt
1748 - 1830See, in this world, there are things that are useful and things that are useless; now we can't be wasting time over the ...
Ai Er Dun Sai Na
1905 - 1980To be free is not to have the power to do anything you want, but to have the power to do what is right.
Ai Mi Huai En Hao Si
1910 - 1985Existence precedes essence.