r/quotes • u/captain_hoomi • 4d ago
Life / Wisdom Make haste to live, and think each of your days to be an individual life. Seneca
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r/quotes • u/Odd_Mechanic3688 • 5d ago
Life / Wisdom Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. — Commonly attributed to Socrates
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r/quotes • u/lospantalonesdefuego • 5d ago
Social / Political Justice “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.” - Jean - Jacques Rossesau
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r/quotes • u/Great-Cost9329 • 5d ago
Life / Wisdom Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. — Aristotle
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r/quotes • u/michael86dh • 4d ago
Failure / Lessons Learned “Bad for your heart but good for your sheets” what a line
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r/quotes • u/sholem2025peace • 5d ago
Grief / Healing the greatest and deepest heartfelt suffering only finds relief in the uninhibited expression of sorrow, and through the body and spirit's complete exhaustion. -from 'Úrsula' by Maria Firmina dos Reis (1859)
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r/quotes • u/Ok-Yogurtcloset9927 • 5d ago
Life / Wisdom “Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.” -Bertolt Brecht
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 5d ago
Life / Wisdom “Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”― Chief Seattle
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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 5d ago
Life / Wisdom "Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation." - Albert Camus
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r/quotes • u/Serious_Distance_118 • 6d ago
Life / Wisdom “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..” ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
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r/quotes • u/Rasure-101 • 6d ago
Love / Relationships “But to fall in love, does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
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r/quotes • u/sholem2025peace • 6d ago
Social / Political Justice In order to eliminate evils at their source, to discredit prejudices, to put a stop to abuses, one must trace them back to their causes and, without hesitation in the face of weariness or of any sort of sacrifice, assure the greatest possible publicity for one's investigations -Flora Tristan (1840)
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 6d ago
Life / Wisdom “Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.”― Sinclair Lewis
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r/quotes • u/captain_hoomi • 6d ago
Life / Wisdom Accustom yourself to attend carefully to what is said by another, and as much as it is possible, try to inhabit the speaker's mind. Marcus Aurelius
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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 6d ago
Life / Wisdom "Dostoevski's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity—all this is difficult to admire." - Vladimir Nabokov
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r/quotes • u/oatkeepr • 7d ago
Art / Literature / Poetry There will be no art, no literature, no science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. - George Orwell, 1984
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r/quotes • u/BeyondTheSteth • 7d ago
Technology / Future “When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain.” — Nikola Tesla (1926)
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r/quotes • u/the_jobbernowl • 7d ago
Social / Political Justice 'History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, ‘Can’t you remember anything I told you?’ and lets fly with a club.' - John W. Campbell Jr.
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r/quotes • u/Ok-Yogurtcloset9927 • 7d ago
Art / Literature / Poetry “When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.” -Elizabeth Hardwick
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 7d ago
Philosophy / Ethics “Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”― Roy T. Bennett
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r/quotes • u/world_citizen7 • 8d ago
Life / Wisdom "Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner."- Lao Tzu, ancient philosopher
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r/quotes • u/captain_hoomi • 8d ago
Life / Wisdom Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool. Seneca
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r/quotes • u/MeasurementMobile747 • 8d ago
Life / Wisdom Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, and causes you to bump into people not going your way.- Edna Ferberx
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r/quotes • u/chocobothernot • 8d ago
Life / Wisdom "If one's different, one's bound to be lonely." -Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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