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Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever be supposed the natural condition of man. It is impossible not to conceive that men in their original state were equal; and very difficult to imagine how one would be subjected to another but by violent compulsion. An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty by a crime; but he cannot by that crime forfeit the liberty of his children.

Age - Children - Conditioning - Countries - Crime - Difficulty - Doubt - Equality - Imagination - Impossible - Individual - Liberty - Man - Original - Slavery - State - Violence

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Aristotle

Philosopher

Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!

Health - Insanity - Man - Mindset - Sickness

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Director, Philosopher, Philosopher

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Death - Leadership - Sadness - Silence

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Gustave Flaubert

Novelist

It seems to me... that I have always lived! I possess memories that go back to the Pharoahs. I see myself very clearly at different ages of history, practicing different professions... My present personality is the result of my lost [past] personalities.

Age - Loss - Memory - Past - Personality - Profession

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Alexander Pope

Poet

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

Death

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Harper Lee

Novelist

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em. No... you had the right answer this afternoon, but the wrong reasons. Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it. Hotheadedness isn’t.

Adulthood - Death - Good - Linguistics - Production

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Laozi

Philosopher

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Death - Enlightenment - Inspiration - Spiritual

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H. G. Wells

Writer

... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

Death - Drive - History - Mindset - Value

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William Wordsworth

Poet

Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.

Death - Destroying - Memory

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C. S. Lewis

Novelist, Scholar, Broadcaster

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.

Age

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Ovid

Psychologist, Poet, Poet

The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro magis aegra; malique In circumspectu stat sine fine sui.]

Contemplation - Hopelessness - Mindset - Sickness - Suffering

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Hippocrates

Writer, Scientist, Greek physician

Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known. The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.

Age - Constitution - Eating - Effectiveness - Enough - Exercise - Fall - Giving - Home - Human - Individual - Knowledge - Man - Seasons - Sickness

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Plato

Musician, Philosopher, Philosopher

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

Blessing - Curse - Death - Man - Wellness

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Blaise Pascal

Mathematician, Physicist, Inventor, Theologian

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

Age

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George Orwell

Novelist, Essayist, Journalist, Critic

And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.

Death

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Oscar Wilde

Poet, Playwright

Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.

Death - Making - Mindset - Wellness

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Jonathan Swift

Writer, Poet, Cleric

Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

Death

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Deepak Chopra

Author, Public Speaker, Alternative Medicine Advocate

As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.

Behavior - Death - Oneself - Real - Show - Teenagers - Thinking

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Adolf Hitler

Former Chancellor of Germany

I suggest you to do war but never love because in war either you live or you die. But in love neither you live nor you die.

Death - Love - War

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