#phil

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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The best things in life make you sweaty. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame. ↗

— Stephen King

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What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

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If you can't fight and you can't flee, flow. ↗

— Robert Elias

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My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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We all can be only who we are, no more, no less. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

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The treacherous are ever distrustful. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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