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Philosophy and Religion Flashcards

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To philosophize is to learn how to die.

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Cicero

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There is no other purpose to reading and study if not to live a happy life.

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Seneca

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The perfect kind of friendship is that of good men who resemble one another in virtue.

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Aristotle

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

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Aristotle

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Die at the right time

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Friedrich Nietzsche from Thus Spoke Zara Thustra

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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

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Voltaire

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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

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Voltaire actually said the latter in a 1770 letter

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To lead people, walk behind them.

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Lao Tzu

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So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

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2 Corinthians 4:18

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All that is not eternal is eternally useless.

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C.S. Lewis

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Build your hopes on things eternal.
Put your faith in things eternal.

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Aunt Mamie

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Courage involves pain, and is justly praised; for it is harder to face what is painful than to abstain from what is pleasant.

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Aristotle

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Wit is cultured insolence.

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Aristotle

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The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

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Confucius

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In the beginning especially, we won’t realize we’re changing.

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Tenzin Palmo, author, teacher and founder of the Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery in Himachal Pradesh, India.

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Smallest viable audience: Find the smallest number of people for which you can be a generous contribution for which you can do work that matters. Not only is that enough to fuel us, but it will make everything better

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Seth Godin

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A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.

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Proverbs 17:22, KJV Bible

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After you die, within just a few generations, nobody even remembers you. Everything you ever earned or created is gone.

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Marcus Aurelius

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The question isn’t who is going to let me: it’s who is going to stop me.

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Ayn Rand

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Finding something to be thankful for in every circumstance.

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1 Thessalonians 5:18

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Nothing succeeds without toil.
There are no gains without pains.
No pain, no gain

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Sophocles
Benjamin Franklin
Jane Fonda

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Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

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Proverbs 31:30, NIV

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Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight.

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1 Peter 3:3-4

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Physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.

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1 Timothy 4:8

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25
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The land of Nod.

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The place where Cain was condemned to live after he had killed his younger brother, Abel.

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26
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Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan

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Count Galeazzo Ciano

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27
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We would rather align ourselves with angels than with the higher primates from which we are actually descended.

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Angela Carter, English novelist talking about the human need to self aggrandize

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28
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Never discourage anyone who continues to make progress no matter how slow.

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Plato

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29
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Every heart sings a song incomplete until another heart whispers back.

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Plato

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30
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I am the wisest man alive for I know one thing and that is I know nothing.

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Plato

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31
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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Plato

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32
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Love is a serious mental disease.

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Plato

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33
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

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Plato

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34
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Drunkenness does not give rise to vices; it reveals them.

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Plato

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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

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Plato

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36
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.

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Plato

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37
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Nothing can harm a good person in life nor after death.

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Plato

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38
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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

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Plato

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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly while bad people will always find a way around the laws.

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Plato

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40
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Ignorance is the root and stem of every evil.

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Plato

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41
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There is truth in wine and children.

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Plato

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42
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Those who tell stories rule society.

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Plato

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43
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False words are not evil in themselves, but the infect the soul with evil.

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Plato

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44
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There is in all of us, even those who seem to be the most moderate a type of desire that is terrible wild and lawless.

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Plato

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45
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark, but the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

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Plato

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46
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Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

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Plato

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47
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Poets utter great and wise things that they themselves do not understand.

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Plato

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48
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When the word does not strike, the stick will not help either.

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Plato

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49
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Never forgive a friend who betrayed you once. He will betray you again.

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Plato

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50
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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

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Plato

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51
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Treat your parents as you would like your children to treat you.

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Plato

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52
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You married a crazy woman if she says you’re perfect.

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Plato

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53
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The greatest victory is overcoming your negative thinking.

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Plato

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54
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Win your friends not with flattery, but with sincere words of love.

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Plato

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55
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.

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Plato

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56
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If you were answered with silence, this does not mean you were not answered.

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Plato

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57
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There are three classes of men: lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain

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Plato

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58
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The world is boring for boring people.

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Plato

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59
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Bad people live to eat and drink. Virtuous people eat and drink in order to live.

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Plato

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60
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You should not honor men more than truth.

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Plato

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61
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.

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Plato

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62
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An empty vessel makes the loudest sound so those who have the least wit are the greatest babblers.

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Plato

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63
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People are like dirt. They can nourish you and help you grow or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

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Plato

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64
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When people speak ill of thee, live so that nobody may believe them.

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Plato

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65
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

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Plato

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66
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Without friendship no communication between people has value.

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Plato

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67
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing

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Epicurus

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68
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Don’t even dare trust a wife that says you’re always right.

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Epicurus

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69
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Of all the means to ensure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

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Epicurus

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70
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Reason is a slave to the passions.

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David Hume

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71
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Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes
our abundance.

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Epicurus

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72
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The easiest thing of all is to deceive oneself; for we believe what we want to believe.

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Demosthenes

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73
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Beauty is a short lived tyranny.

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Socrates

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74
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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

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Socrates

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75
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Socrates

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Socrates

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76
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

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Socrates

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77
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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

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Socrates

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78
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

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Socrates

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79
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

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Socrates

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80
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All I know is that I know nothing.

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Socrates

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81
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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

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Socrates

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82
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To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

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Socrates

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83
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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

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Socrates

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84
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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

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Socrates

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85
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

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Socrates

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86
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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

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Socrates

87
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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

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Socrates

88
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

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Socrates

89
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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

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Socrates

90
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

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Socrates

91
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Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

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Socrates

92
Q

Wisdom begins in wonder.

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Socrates

93
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The unexamined life is not worth living.

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Socrates

94
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

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Socrates

95
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy if not, you’ll become a philosopher.

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Socrates

96
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Anything too stupid to be spoken is sung.

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Voltaire

97
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

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Aristotle

98
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Thinking in metaphor is the highest form of thought.

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Aristotle

99
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It is the sad duty of politics to establish justice in a sinful world.

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Reinhold Niebuhr, Protestant theologian

100
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You can’t do your job and be afraid.

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Meryl Streep

101
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Life without a design is erratic.

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Seneca

102
Q

People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time, they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.

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Seneca

103
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

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Epicurus

104
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Don’t be deterred, but be determined.

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Pastor Roy Moore

105
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We do more fleshly things than spiritual things.

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Pastor Roy Moore

106
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Follow the mean.
“Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.”

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Aristotle

107
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It is the mark of the trained mind never to expect more precision in the treatment of any subject than the nature of that subject permits.

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Aristotle

108
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Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

109
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Waking life is a dream
controlled.

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George Santayana

110
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Think for yourself, not by yourself.

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Bhikhu Parekh

111
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Confucius
Kongzi

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112
Q

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

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Mahatma Ganhdi

113
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For as he thinks in his heart, so is he

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Proverbs 23: 7

114
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Consider yourself lightly. Consider the world deeply.

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Miyamoto Musashi

115
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The greatest reward of righteousness is peace
of mind.

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Epicurus

116
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Everything depends on everything else. The one contains the many and the many contains one.

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Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk, peace activist, prolific author, poet and teacher, who founded the Plum Village Tradition, historically recognized as the main inspiration for engaged Buddhism

117
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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

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Marcus Aurelius

118
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He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.

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Epicurus

119
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The secret of a joyful life is to live dangerously.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

120
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The surest way to corrupt youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

121
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The earth is essential, universal, and eternal. Don’t anthropomorphize nature into being an organism — the universe is something greater.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

122
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Gird yourselves for a hard battle; but have faith in the miracles of your god!

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Friedrich Nietzsche

123
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Avoid emasculated inquiries.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

124
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Figure out how to help yourself to grow stronger in life.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

125
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Hate self-weakness, thrive in strength.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

126
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Instead of classifying knowledge— interpret information, and create meaning and purpose.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

127
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The first wealth is health.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote this in an 1860 essay.­

128
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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

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Albert Camus, Algerian-born French philosopher

129
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Kings and philosophers shit — and so do ladies. Even on the highest throne in the world, we are seated still upon our asses.

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Michel de Montaigne

130
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

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Immanuel Kant

131
Q

Tone your wants and tastes low down enough, and make much of negatives, and of mere daylight and the skies.

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Walt Whitman

132
Q

Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don’t hang yourself, you’ll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both.

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Soren Kierkegaard on the inevitability of suffering.

133
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sub specie aeternitatis

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Baruch Spinoza coined this phrase that means “under the aspect of eternity.”
Embracing life’s events from a long-term, eternal perspective rather than just the fleeting present.

134
Q

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

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Arthur Schopenhauer

135
Q

Happiness is not made by what we own. It is what we share.

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Jonathan Sacks, English Orthodox rabbi, philosopher, theologian, and author.

136
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To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.

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Lao Tzu

137
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To the most trivial actions, attach the devotion and mindfulness of a hundred monks. To matters of life and death, attach a sense of humor.

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Zhuangzi

138
Q

Wash away your old opinions to let new ideas in.

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Zhu Xi

139
Q

There is no fixed shape to the preservation of perfect balance; it depends on the circumstances of the moment.

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Zhu Xi

140
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

A

Dalai Lama

141
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True change is within; leave the outside as it is.

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Dalai Lama

142
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Wisdom is born of meditation; without meditation wisdom is lost.

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Gautama Buddha

143
Q

Conquer anger with love, evil with good, meanness with generosity, and lies with truth.

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Gautama Buddha

144
Q

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence; it’s good to be silly at the right moment.

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Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus)

145
Q

The path from dreams to success does exist.

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Kalpana Chawla, American astronaut

146
Q

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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Cicero

147
Q

Be who you were created to be and you will set the world on fire.
Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire.

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St. Catherine of Siena

148
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.

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St. Catherine of Siena

149
Q

We’ve had enough exhortations to be silent. Cry out with a thousand tongues – I see the world is rotten because of silence.

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St. Catherine of Siena

150
Q

The soul always fears until she arrives at true love.

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St. Catherine of Siena

151
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

A

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author

152
Q

Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.

A

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author

153
Q

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

A

Epictetus

154
Q

Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.

A

Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher

155
Q

It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.

A

Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher

156
Q

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it,

A

Confucius

157
Q

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

A

Seneca

158
Q

Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

A

Colossians 3:2-4

159
Q

The mind is a fire to be kindled.

A

Plutarch

160
Q

uncircumcised lips

A

Moses’s metaphorical way of expressing his perceived inadequacy as a speaker when God directs him to go to Pharaoh and demand that he let the Israelites go free.

161
Q

You can’t enjoy your posthumous fame.

A

Marcus Aurelius

162
Q

consecration

A

Biblically, it means:
1) The act of dedicating yourself to the service and worship of God.
2) To make holy or dedicate to a higher purpose. 3) Association with the sacred.
Devoting yourself to the Lord, repenting of your sins, and affirming your faith through baptism

163
Q

clobber passages

A

The 6 biblical verses that justify prejudice against LGBTQIA people.

Genesis 19:4–25 (the story of Sodom and Gomorrah)
Leviticus 18:22 (“You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female.”)
Leviticus 20:13 (“If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act.”)
Romans 1:26–27 (“The men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts.”)
1 Corinthians 6:9–11 (“Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.”)
1 Timothy 1:9–10 (“Law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching.”)

164
Q

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

A

Seneca

165
Q

To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.

A

Thich Nhat Hanh

166
Q

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

A

Lao Tzu

167
Q

Waste no more time arguing what a good man might be. Be one.

A

Marcus Aurelius

168
Q

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

A

Thich Nhat Hanh

169
Q

What you resist not only persists, but will grow in size.

A

Carl Jung

170
Q

Stop trusting in mere humans, who have but a breath in their nostrils. Why hold them in esteem?

A

Isaiah 2:22 NIV

171
Q

What is happiness except the
simple harmony between a
man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus

A

What is happiness except the
simple harmony between a
man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus`

172
Q
  1. The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. 7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.
A

Romans 8:6-8
New International Version

173
Q

There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

A

Seneca

174
Q

They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.

A

Hosea 8:7
God says that Israel had planted wind and would harvest a whirlwind. Taking the “wind” to mean something worthless and foolish (see Job 7:7; Proverbs 11:29; and Ecclesiastes 1:14, 17), we can surmise that Israel’s foolishness in the past would result in a veritable storm of consequence. Indeed, in the previous verses, Hosea decries Israel’s idolatry (verses 4-6). Their foolish pursuit of false gods would reap a severe judgment from the Lord.

Also at work in the proverb is the principle of multiplication: a farmer may plant one kernel of corn, but he will reap much more than that—a whole ear. In the same way, Israel’s sin of idolatry would bring forth an amplified consequence that would sweep them all away.

175
Q

Happiness never decreases by being shared.

A

Gautama Buddha

176
Q

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

A

Marcus Aurelius, 2nd century CE

177
Q

With a large enough sample, any outrageous thing is likely to happen.

A

Persi Diaconis and Frederick Mosteller observed this in a 1989 paper.

178
Q

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

A

Thich Nhât Hanh

179
Q

Trust not too much in appearances.

A

Virgil

180
Q

From now on practice saying to anything unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and not what you appear to be.

A

Epictetus

181
Q

A single girl who needs nobody makes people
uncomfortable, and my mom is right in this,
appearance is everything, and appearing to
have no one is like swimming alone in the
middle of the ocean with a flesh wound.

A

Elsa Schappeli

182
Q

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy just to be normal.

A

Albert Camus

183
Q

Seek first the virtues of the mind; and other things either will come, or will not be wanted.

A

Francis Bacon

184
Q

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

A

Pope John Paul II

185
Q

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

A

Buddha

186
Q

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

A

John Paul II

187
Q

Of all the things which wisdom has contrived which contribute to a blessed life, none is more important, more fruitful, than friendship.

A

Epicurus— quoted by Cicero

188
Q

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

A

Marcus Aurelius

189
Q

If you would understand virtue, observe the conduct of virtuous men.

A

Aristotle’s Ethics

190
Q

We can smile and relax. Everything we want is right here in the present moment.

A

Thích Nhât Hanh

191
Q

Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.

A

Miyamoto Musashi

192
Q

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

A

Euripides

193
Q

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is
one of them.

A

Vicki Baum

194
Q

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

A

Lao Tzu

195
Q

Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

A

Martin Luther King Jr.

196
Q

Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit.

A

George Santayana

197
Q

The best remedy for anger is delay.

A

Seneca

198
Q

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

A

Seneca

199
Q

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

A

Epicurus

200
Q

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

A

Albert Camus

201
Q

The Ideal age for marriage in men is 35. The Ideal age for marriage in women is 18.

A

Aristotle

202
Q

Any God who is mine, but not yours, any god who is concerned with me and not you, is an idol.

A

Abraham J. Heschel, Polish-American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century.

203
Q

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom

A

Soren Kierkegaard

204
Q

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

A

Seneca

205
Q

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

A

Friedrich Nietzsche

206
Q

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

A

Friedrich Nietzsche

207
Q

Become who you are.

A

Friedrich Nietzsche

208
Q

There are no facts, only interpretations.

A

Friedrich Nietzsche

209
Q

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

A

Friedrich Nietzsche

210
Q

He who has a why in life can tolerate almost any how.

A

Friedrich Nietzsche

211
Q

The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

A

Friedrich Nietzsche

212
Q

Hell is other people.

A

Sartre

213
Q

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.

A

Joan Didion

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