Author: Kasya
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Seneca
In fulfilling the duties of a person, we do not lock ourselves in the walls of one city or state, but we go out into the open space of the world.
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Plato
Inviolability of the law is the only true exponent of freedom.
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Aristotle
A virtue arises and grows mainly through learning and that’s why it needs a long exercise.
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Aristotle
It is natural for us to acquire virtues, and through cultivation, we are improving in them.
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Aristotle
The best person is not the one who acts in accordance with virtue in relation to himself, but the one who does so according to relation to others, and this is a difficult matter.
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Unknown philosopher
nosce te ipsum (lat.) – “know thyself”. An inscription in the Delphi temple of Apollo, which Socrates chose as his motto and Chilon of Sparta developed to: “know thyself, and you will know the gods and the universe.”
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LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 4.112 Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.
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Фридрих Ницше
Личности всегда приходится бороться, чтобы не быть раздавленным массой. Если вы попробуете это, вы часто будете одиноки, и иногда вам будет страшно. Но никакая цена не слишком высока за привилегию быть собой.
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Julius Caesar in “The War of Catiline”
The least freedom is associated with the highest fate. Such people can neither show their disposition nor hate, but most of all – indulge in anger.
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Unknown on human development
Being born as a half-animal we are learning to become a human over the course of our life.