"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does."

Borges, Jorge Luis on night
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"If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle."

Johnson, Samuel on solitude
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"In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages."

Mathews, William on solitude
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"One can acquire everything in solitude except character."

Stendhal, Henri B. on solitude   

"To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self."

Mabie, Hamilton on solitude
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"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."

Huxley, Aldous on solitude
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"I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude."

Thoreau, Henry David on solitude
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"Leisure is the mother of Philosophy."

Hobbes, Thomas on leisure
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"Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure."

Hobbes, Thomas on knowledge   

"The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only."

Hobbes, Thomas on absurdity
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"Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools."

Hobbes, Thomas on words   

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"The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind."

Hobbes, Thomas on food and eating   

"War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known."

Hobbes, Thomas on battles   

"Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another."

Hobbes, Thomas on science   

"Desire to know why, and how -- curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge -- exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure."

Hobbes, Thomas on curiosity
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"Curiosity is the lust of the mind."

Hobbes, Thomas on curiosity
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"Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves."

Hobbes, Thomas on wisdom   

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"The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living."

Hobbes, Thomas on books - classics   

"The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame."

Hobbes, Thomas on secrets
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"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."

Ruskin, John on honesty
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"The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself."

Hemingway, Ernest on people   

"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."

Woolf, Virginia on people
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"The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself."

Plato on politics   

"Charm is the ability to make someone think that both of you are quite wonderful."

Unknown, Source on charm
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"Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others."

Brown, John Mason on charm
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"Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on charm
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"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."

Camus, Albert on charm
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"Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things."

Diderot, Denis on passion
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"The minute you start talking about what your going to do if you lose, you have lost."

Shultz, George on losers and losing
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"Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on philosophers and philosophy   

"Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on philosophers and philosophy   

"Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively."

Brooks, Mel on philosophers and philosophy
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"Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on philosophers and philosophy
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"Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you."

Wilde, Oscar on speakers and speaking   

"There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought --a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!"

Twain, Mark on loneliness
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"Of my friends I am the only one left."

Terence on loneliness
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"All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers."

Mccullers, Carson on loneliness   

"The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit."

FeNelon, Francois on brevity
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"Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom."

Cicero, Marcus T. on philosophers and philosophy
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"Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you."

Bly, Mary on cats
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