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"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning."

Camus, Albert on greatness
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"By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more."

Camus, Albert on government
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"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better."

Camus, Albert on freedom
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"The only certainty is that nothing is certain."

Pliny The Elder on certainty    Share

"In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain."

Pliny The Elder on certainty
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"Home is where the heart is."

Pliny The Elder on home
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"Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it."

Camus, Albert on philosophers and philosophy
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"The society based on production is only productive, not creative."

Camus, Albert on production
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"What is a rebel? A man who says no."

Camus, Albert on rebellion
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"To go too far is as bad as to fall short."

Confucius on excess
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"Say not always what you know, but always know what you say."

Claudius on speakers and speaking
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"To do no evil is good, to intend none better."

Claudius on evil
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Clarke, Arthur C. on vision
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"Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few."

Cato The Elder on speech    Share

"I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right."

Cato The Elder on silence
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"Knowledge is power."

Bacon, Francis on knowledge
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"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."

Franklin, Benjamin on advice
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"An old young man, will be a young old man."

Franklin, Benjamin on age and aging
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"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."

Franklin, Benjamin on desire
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"Let thy discontents be thy secrets."

Franklin, Benjamin on discontent
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"God heals and the doctor takes the fee."

Franklin, Benjamin on doctors
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"Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper."

Bacon, Francis on hope
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"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."

Bacon, Francis on home    Share

"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."

Bacon, Francis on friends and friendship
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"Age will not be defied."

Bacon, Francis on age and aging    Share

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"Call no man happy till he is dead."

Aeschylus on happiness
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"It is always in season for old men to learn."

Aeschylus on learning
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"Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on time
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"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on life    Share

"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship."

Franklin, Benjamin on expenditure
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"Most fools think they are only ignorant."

Franklin, Benjamin on fools and foolishness
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"He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner."

Franklin, Benjamin on fortune    Share

"Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt."

Franklin, Benjamin on children
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"If you would know the value of money try to borrow some."

Franklin, Benjamin on borrowing
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"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."

Franklin, Benjamin on stupidity
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"Three can keep a secret if two are dead."

Franklin, Benjamin on secrets
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"If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with to the other world?"

Franklin, Benjamin on riches
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"There never was a good war or a bad peace."

Franklin, Benjamin on peace
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"Love well, whip well."

Franklin, Benjamin on parents and parenting
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"Love thy neighbor -- but don't pull down your hedge."

Franklin, Benjamin on neighbors    Share

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