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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: ability, luck, sad-truth
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    Bertrand Russell
    “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: doubt, intelligent, problems, smart, stupid, world
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    Aristotle
    “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: ethics, philosphy, self-discovery
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    Aristotle
    “Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”
    ― Aristotle
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    Aristotle
    “Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: time
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    Aristotle
    “Wit is educated insolence.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: definitions, humor
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    Aristotle
    “Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.”
    ― Aristotle
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    Aristotle
    “A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: morality, politics, religion
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    Aristotle
    “All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: mob-mentality, morality
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    Aristotle
    “Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: democracy, equality
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    Aristotle
    “Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: dignity
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    Aristotle
    “Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form, but with regard to their mode of life.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: religion-gods
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    Aristotle
    “The secret to humor is surprise.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: humor, surprise
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    Mark Twain
    “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, politics
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    Mark Twain
    “We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: awe, science
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    Mark Twain
    “Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: mark-twain
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    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
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    Mark Twain
    “The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, philosophy, religion
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    Mark Twain
    “Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: customs, morality
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    Mark Twain
    “The lack of money is the root of all evil.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor
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    Mark Twain
    “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: clothing
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    Mark Twain
    “A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: truth
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    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    ― Paul Terry
    tags: exercise, humor, laziness, misattributed-to-hutchins
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: living, world
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    Mark Twain
    “When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: offense, respect
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    Mark Twain
    “There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, John Bull's Other Island
    tags: humor
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. ”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, The Irrational Knot
    tags: chess, intelligence, stupidity
    107 likes



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