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#1

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: inspirational

#2

“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: friendship

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#3

“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

tags: criticism

1732 likes

#4

“357.—Little minds are too much wounded by little things; great minds see all and are not even hurt.”
― Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

45 likes

#5

“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

tags: life-experience, poetry, self-discovery, wisdom

2383 likes

#6

“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

995 likes

#7

“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

tags: humility, throne

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#8

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

tags: change, cleverness, misattributed, self, wisdom, world

6255 likes

#9

“The cure for pain is in the pain.”
― Rumi

tags: pain

983 likes

#10

“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

tags: pain

907 likes

#11

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

tags: truth

3948 likes

#12

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: history, rome, soul, thoughts, wisdom

2109 likes

#13

“If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.”
― Warren Buffett

tags: money

81 likes

#14

“The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.”
― Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor

131 likes

#15

“As the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard noted, life can only be understood backwards—but it must be lived forwards.”
― Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor

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#16

“The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The Intelligent Investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.”
― Jason Zweig, The Intelligent Investor

19 likes

#17

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

6658 likes

#18

“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: political-philosophy

1203 likes

#19

“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

tags: daring, risk, success

939 likes

#20

“Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: deception

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#21

“it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

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#22

“I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.”
― Machiavelli Niccolo

tags: political-theory, sociology

595 likes

#23

“Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Discourses

tags: driving-forces, hate, impulses, love, men

578 likes

#24

“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

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#25

“Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: comprehension, intellect, intelligence, knowledge, philosophy, use

504 likes

#26

“How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

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#27

“…he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.”
― Machiavelli Niccolo, The Prince

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#28

“Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

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#29

“Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

394 likes

#30

“The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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