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    Seneca
    “What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    tags: life-philosophy
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    Mark Twain
    “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Seneca
    “True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: attitude, gratitude, happiness, inspirational-quotes, satisfaction
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    Seneca
    “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    tags: perseverance, suicide, survival
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    Seneca
    “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: common-people, corruption, organized-religion, useful
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
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    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
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    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: truth
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    Mark Twain
    “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: patriotism, politics
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    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war
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    William Shakespeare
    “We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
    ― William Shakespeare
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, discovery, identity, self-discovery, service
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    Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
    “Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.”
    ― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
    tags: authority, inspirational, nation
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    Terry Pratchett
    “One person is nothing. Two people are a nation.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: nation
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    Adam Smith
    “There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”
    ― Adam Smith, Correspondence of Adam Smith
    tags: civilisation, civilization, decline, hope, nation, ruin
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    M.F. Moonzajer
    “There is no nation in the history that has not experienced bloodshed and murdering. We all have committed the same mistakes in a different manner.”
    ― M.F. Moonzajer
    tags: bloodshed, history, mistakes, murder, nation
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    M.F. Moonzajer
    “For enslaving a nation, just kill the conscientious people, the rest can be bought.”
    ― M.F. Moonzajer
    tags: conscientious, enslaving, nation
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Nation
    tags: feathers, hammer, holes, nation, sea, silence
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  • #22
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
    74405 likes



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