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Aristotle
Ancient Greece
-384 // -322
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On Work:
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind
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On Knowledge:
All men by nature desire to know
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On Action:
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire
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On Friend:
A true friend is one soul in two bodies
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On City:
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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