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Marcus Tullius Cicero – Philosopher Extra-ordinaire

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Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC; sometimes anglicized as Tully) was a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists.

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Anyone who has a library and a garden wants for nothing.
– Cicero
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A pretended affection is not easily distinguished from a real one, unless in seasons of distress. For adversity is to friendship what fire is to gold—the only infallible test to discover the genuine from the counterfeit. In all other cases they both have the same common marks.
—Cicero.
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Bitter and unrelenting enemies often deserve better of us than those friends whom we are inclined to regard as pleasant companions; the former often tell us the truth, the latter never.
—Cicero
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By doubting we come at the truth.
– Cicero
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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
~Cicero
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“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”
~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Friendship throws a greater lustre on prosperity, while it lightens adversity by sharing in its griefs and anxieties.
—Cicero.
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Fortune favors the bold.
—Cicero.
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It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own.
—Cicero.
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
– Cicero
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Nature has instilled in our minds an insatiable desire to see truth.
– Cicero
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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
~Cicero
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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
—Cicero
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Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
– Cicero
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Silence is one of the greatest art of conversation.
~Cicero

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There is no grief that time will not soften.
—Cicero.
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There is nothing so ridiculous that some philosopher has not said it.
– Cicero

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What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.
— Cicero.
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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
– Cicero

Desiderious Erasmus

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untitledDesiderious Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch priest and teacher.

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Dulce bellum inexpertis. War is delightful to those who have no experience of it.
– Erasmus

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Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.
– Erasmus

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For what is life but a play in which everyone acts a part until the curtain comes down?
-Erasmus

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“I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.”

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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
– Erasmus
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The fox knows many things; the hedgehog, one big thing.
– Erasmus
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The desire to write grows with writing.
– Erasmus
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They predict occurrences of the most prodigious proportions. Talk of the marvels of magic? Astrologers declare the most astonishing wonders that are about to be. These fortunate men find enough gullible people in the world to swallow their wildest announcements.
– Erasmus

Soren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher)

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Danish Philosopher

Soren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher)

BioData

  • Full Name: Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
  • DoB: 5 May 1813
  • PoB: Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Death: 11 November 1855 (42)
  • Education: University of Copenhagen
  • Genre: Western Philosophy

As Quoted by Kierkegaard:

 

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
– Soren Kierkegaard

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Boredom is the root of all evil.
– Soren Kierkegaard

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“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.”

~Kierkegaard

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.“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
~Søren Kierkegaard

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Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
– Soren Kierkegaard
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
-Soren Kierkegaard

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“People demand freedom of speech as compensation for the freedom of thought they rarely use.”
–Søren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855)

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People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have, for example. freedom of thought; instead they demand freedom of speech as compensation.
– Soren Kierkegaard
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Philosophy is life’s dry-nurse, who can take care of us – but not suckle us.
~Soren Kierkegaard
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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
~Søren Kierkegaard
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To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing, and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.
– Soren Kierkegaard
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To love oneself in the right way and to love one’s neighbour are at bottom one and the same. When selfishness has been taken from you, then you have learned to love yourself rightly. When a man in self torment thinks to do God a service by torturing himself, what is his sin except this, of not willing to love himself in the right way?
– Soren Kierkegaard
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There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
– Soren Kierkegaard

Wisdom from George Bernard Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw was multi-awarded. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. He also won the Oscar for the Best Screenplay for the film Pygmalion in 1938 when he was 82 years of age.

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26 July 1885 – George Bernard Shaw celebrated his 29th birthday by finally doing away with his virginity. He lost it to a widow who was 15 years older than him.

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A life spent making mistake is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
– George Bernard Shaw

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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only being uncomfortable.
– George Bernard Shaw

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-George Bernard Shaw

Dancing is the vertical expression of a horizontal desire.
– George Bernard Shaw

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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
– George Bernard Shaw

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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
– George Bernard Shaw

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
– George Bernard Shaw

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If you want to tell a person the truth, make him laugh or he’ll kill you.
– George Bernard Shaw

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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.
~George Bernard Shaw

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I’m only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler.
– George Bernard Shaw
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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
– George Bernard Shaw

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
~George Bernard Shaw

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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny.  They have only shifted it to another shoulder.
– George Bernard Shaw

“Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.”
– George Bernard Shaw

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The average person today is about as credulous as was the average person in the Middle Ages.

– George Bernard Shaw

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The liars punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

– George Bernard Shaw

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The photographer is like a cod, which produces  million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

– George Bernard Shaw

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There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

– goerge bernard shaw

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When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden reason.
-George Bernard Shaw
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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.
– George Bernard Shaw
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
– George Bernard Shaw

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
~George Bernard Shaw

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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
~George Bernard Shaw

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Charles Dickens

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NPG P301(19),Charles Dickens,by (George) Herbert WatkinsCharles Dickens is 200 years old tomorrow. He was born in Portsmouth on 7 February 1812. His immense contribution to English literature means that he is never away of the limelight. His novels and short stories have been made into countless movies, musicals and dramas.List of Work by Charles Dickens

List of Work by Charles Dickens

Novels by Charles Dickens

The Pickwick Papers – 1836
Oliver Twist – 1837
Nicholas Nickleby – 1838
The Old Curiosity Shop – 1840
Barnaby Rudge – 1841
Martin Chuzzlewit – 1843
Dombey and Son – 1846
David Copperfield – 1849
Bleak House – 1852
Hard Times – 1854
Little Dorrit – 1855
A Tale of Two Cities – 1859
Great Expectations – 1860
Our Mutual Friend – 1864
The Mystery of Edwin Drood – 1870

Just some of the Dickens’s short stories and other works

American Notes
The Battle of Life
The Chimes: A Goblin Story
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Tree
A Dinner at Poplar Walk
Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions
A Flight
Frozen Deep
George Silverman’s Explanation
Going into Society
The Haunted Man
Holiday Romance
The Holly-Tree
Hunted Down
The Long Voyage
Master Humphrey’s Clock
A Message from the Sea
Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy
Public Life of Mr. Trumble, Once Mayor of Mudfog
Sketches by Boz
The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton
Sunday under Three Heads
Tom Tiddler’s Ground
Travelling Abroad – City of London Churches
The Uncommercial Traveller
Wreck of the Golden Mary

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.
~Charles Dickens
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A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
~Charles Dickens
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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
– Charles Dickens

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As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence.
– Charles Dickens

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Bring in the bottled ligthning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
– Dickens
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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
– Dickens
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It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.
– Charles Dickens
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Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.
– Charles Dickens

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Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

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No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.
– Charles Dickens

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
– Charles Dickens

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
– Charles Dickens
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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess.
– Charles Dickens

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