"Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God."

A Course In Miracles on peace
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"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it."

Socrates on desire
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"The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods."

Socrates on desire
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"Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live."

Socrates on food and eating
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"I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within."

Socrates on love
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"By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher."

Socrates on marriage
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"Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune."

Socrates on change
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"Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on insanity
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"In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature."

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"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

Socrates on death
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"Prejudices are what fools use for reason."

Voltaire on prejudice
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"The reward of suffering is experience."

Aeschylus on adversity
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"Beware of the person of one book."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on books - reading
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"Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life."

Aristophanes on wisdom
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"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

Aristotle on excellence
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle on excellence
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"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities."

Voltaire on evil
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"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."

Voltaire on medicine
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"Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on obscenity
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