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Philosophers and their guiding principle

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I consider the one who conquers his desires to be braver than the one who conquers his enemies, since
the hardest victory is the victory over oneself. Aristotle
Before convincing the intellect, it is essential to touch and predispose the heart. B Pascal
You can't untie a knot without knowing how it's done. Aristotle
You ask me why I buy rice and flowers? I buy rice to live and flowers to have something to live
for. Confucius
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn. B. Russell
We can imagine everything, predict everything, except how far we can sink. E Cioran
New reviews are always suspect, and are usually rejected, for no reason other than that they are not
common. J Locke
Being idle is the short road to death, being diligent is a way of life; foolish people are inactive, wise
people are diligent. Buddha
Education builds trust. Trust breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. Confucius .
Walk as if you are kissing the ground with your feet. Thich Nhat
Learning to let go must be learned before learning to achieve. Life should be touched, not strangled. You
have to relax, let it happen, the rest moves with it. Ray Bradbury
The teacher is the correct synthesis of natural disposition and constant exercise. Protagoras
Good results are obtained by always putting yourself in the other's place and thinking about what one
would do if it had been the other. A. C. Doyle
It's not what happens to you that determines how far you'll go in life; It is the way to handle what
happens to you. zig ziglar
The first step of wisdom is to blame everything; the last to reconcile with everything. G. C. Lichtenberg
But the hidden meaning of life is that life has no hidden meaning. F. Person
Men always forget that human happiness is a disposition of the mind and not a condition of
circumstances. J Locke
It is characteristic of censorship to accredit the opinions that they attack. Voltaire
The seriousness of an adversary is disarmed with laughter and laughter with seriousness. gorgias
The great talent comes, more than from the intellectual elements and from a social refinement superior
to that of others, from the faculty of transmitting them, of inverting them. M. Proust
The mind is everything. What you think you become. Buddha
The little I have learned is worthless compared to what I do not know and do not despair of
learning. discards
The very difficulty of living can become the only thing keeping some individuals alive. A. Polgar
It's easy to make things complicated, but hard to make things simple. Nietzsche
We are like chameleons; we take our tone and the color of our moral character from those around us. J
Locke
Anyone can become angry, that is very simple. But getting angry with the right person, to the right
degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way is certainly not that simple. Aristotle
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one should. We ourselves must walk the path. Buddha
To change life: start immediately. Do it ostentatiously. W James
No one is free to say stupid things, the bad thing is to say them with emphasis. Michael de Montaigne
The limit of any pain is an even greater pain. E Cioran
Peace comes from within. Don't look outside. Buddha
Most people listen with the intent to respond, not with the desire to understand. A. C. Doyle
There is nothing more equally distributed than reason: everyone is convinced that they have
enough. discards
The best way to foresee the future is to invent it. F. Ford Coppola
Our sense of wonder increases exponentially; the greater the knowledge and the deeper the mystery, the
more we try to know and the more enigmas we end up creating. E. O. Wilson
The greatest wisdom that exists is to know oneself. Galileo Galilei
The luck favors only the prepared mind. Issac Asimov .
Let's not do what we want; instead, let us be responsible for what we are. J. P. Sartre .
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like creating oneself. T. Carlyle .
All great events take place in our minds. O Wilde
You are who you are and you are where you are because of what has gone on in your mind. Change who
you are and change who you are by changing what goes into your mind. zig ziglar
Life is divided into three tenses: present, past and future. Of these, the present is very brief; the future,
doubtful; the past, right. Seneca
Love is blind, but marriage restores her sight. G.Lichtenberg
There is no night, no matter how long, that does not find the day. w shakespeare
There is nothing that is entirely in our power more than our thoughts. discards
Be what you wish the world was. M. Gandhi
When you can't go back, you just have to find the best way forward. P. Coelho
The friend must be like money, that before needing it, you know its value. Socrates
Be wary of those who turn their backs on love, on ambition, on society. They will take revenge for having
given it up. E Cioran
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the source. J Locke
Hope is the worst of evils, because it prolongs man's torment. Nietzsche
Theoretically we are the rational being par excellence and, however, we are the most emotional
species. E. Punset
The most immovable barrier in nature is the one between the thought of one man and that of
another. W James
It should be noted that many beliefs are based on prejudice and tradition. discards
We are linked by invisible threads to our fears. We are the puppet and the puppeteer, victims of our
expectations. G. S. Rawling
We can be proud of what we have done, but we should be much more proud of what we have not
done. That pride is yet to be invented. E Cioran
Man is not the son of circumstances, but circumstances are the creatures of man. Epicurius .
What a man thinks of himself generally determines, or rather indicates, his destiny. HD Thoreau
Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul before waiting for someone to bring you
flowers. Virginia. A. Shoffstall
The soul is in the brain. E. Punset
What bothered me the most is not that you lied to me but that, from now on, I won't be able to believe in
you. Nietzsche
I only know that I know nothing. Socrates
Imagination is a quality that has been given to man to compensate him for what he is not, while a sense
of humor has been given to console him for what he is. O. Wilde .
We know what we are, but we do not know what we can be. W.Shakespeare .
The sage does not teach with words, but with actions. Lao Tse
There are three paths that lead to wisdom: Imitation, the simplest; reflection, the noblest; and
experience, the more bitter. Confucius
Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to. M Twain
Happiness is the absence of fear, it is an emotion, and as such, it is transitory. E. Punset
You never reach the total truth, nor are you ever totally away from it. Aristotle
The idea that in heaven there is a greater equality of classes is what, deep down, makes it so pleasant in
the eyes of the poor. G.Lichtenberg
If you want to be loved, you have to love. Seneca
Scientists struggle to make the impossible possible. Politicians to do the impossible possible. B. Russell
Is life worth living? It all depends on the player. W James
It takes a lifetime to learn to live. Seneca
Even false joy is usually preferable to true sadness. discards
Elegant words are not sincere; sincere words are not elegant. Lao Tse
What distinguishes truly original minds is not that they are the first to see something new, but that they
are able to see as new what is old, known, seen and despised by all. Nietzsche
We live with the technological changes of the 21st century and with the social institutions of the 19th
century. E. Punset
Whenever you are in a conflict with someone, there is a factor that can make the difference between
damaging the relationship or strengthening it. That factor is attitude. W James
A good life is one inspired by love and guided by intelligence. B. Russell
Anything complex can be broken down into simple parts. discards
If you expect nothing, you will never find what you never expected to find. Heraclitus.
Unlearning most of the things we have been taught is more important than learning. E. Punset
The wise man looks for what he wants within himself; the unwise, he looks for it in others. Confucius
If you think that feeling bad or worrying will change the past or the future, you are living on another
planet with a different reality. W James
The judicious man thinks of his ills only when it leads to something practical; all the other moments he
dedicates to other things. B. Russell
You can search the entire universe for someone more deserving of your love and affection than yourself,
and that person will be found nowhere. You yourself, as much as anyone in the universe, deserve your
own love and affection. Buddha
Let us strive to make the last path better than the previous one, as long as we walk. And when we come
to the end, let us rejoice in moderation. Epicurius
If you want to persuade someone, use their same arguments. Aristotle
Pain does not follow us, it walks forward. Porchia
The mind is slow to forget what it has taken a long time to learn. Seneca
Above all, do not be afraid of the people, they are more conservative than you! Napoleon Bonaparte
There are people who live the present life but prepare with great zeal as if they had to live another life
and not the one they are living, and meanwhile time is consumed and flees. antiphon
It's not that I'm afraid of dying, I just want to not be there when it happens. Woody Allen
Only one thing makes a dream impossible: the fear of failure. Paulo Coelho
He who judges everything easy will find life difficult. Lao Tse
When you hear an inner voice telling you that you can't paint, paint as much as you can, and see how it
will shut up. Vincent van Gogh
According to some revealing tests of aeronautical technique, the bumblebee cannot fly due to the shape
and weight of its body in relation to the surface of its wings. But the bumblebee doesn't know this and so
it continues to fly. I. Sikorski
Life is like a mirror: if I smile, the mirror smiles back. M. Gandhi
Courage is not the absence of fear, rather it is the belief that there is something else that is much more
important than fear. A.Redmoon
Every failure teaches a man something he needed to learn. Charles Dickens .
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