"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   

"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   

"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   

"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   

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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   

"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   

"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