When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are things to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honor are things to be ashamed of.
~ Confucius
Monthly Archives: October 2023
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
~ Alexander Pope
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Depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow – or like a faithful wife.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be history of its successive regrets and impotence.
~ Albert Camus
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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
~ Anton Chekhov
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Modern industrial design is based on the principle of conspicuous economy, but the bourgeois culture which dominates the Western World is founded on the principle of conspicuous waste.
~ Lewis Mumford
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Philosophy is transcendental homelessness; it is the urge
to be at home everywhere.
~ György Lukács
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The success of communism in the world today is due to the failure of democracy to live up to the noble ideals and principles inherent in its system.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
~ Rollo May
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Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
~ Rollo May
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