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When plunder becomes the means of livelihood for a community, a group of people bound by social ties, they soon create a law that sanctions it and a morality that glorifies it.

― FrΓ©dΓ©ric Bastiat, 1850

10.02.2026 07:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason, than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear.”

β€” Hannah Arendt

10.02.2026 06:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œI hate victims who respect their executioners.”

β€” Jean-Paul Sartre

09.02.2026 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Maturity begins when you stop caring about being right and embrace the comfort and freedom of the moment.

β€”Epictetus

03.02.2026 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes."

-Sun Tzu

22.01.2026 09:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When the time comes to praise, praise in such a way that you will not be humiliated when the time comes to criticize.”

KΓ’busname; KeykΓ’vus 11th century

24.10.2025 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There is no avoiding war,it can only be postponed to the advantage of your enemy
|Niccole Machiavelli, 1502

26.08.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"One of the best lessons you can learn in life is how to stay calm.

Calmness is a superpower..."

β€”Bruce Lee

24.08.2025 02:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œThree desires make you a slave to others: the desire to be loved, the desire to be admired, the desire to be appreciated.”

β€”Osho

23.08.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We do not grieve for things we have never had; sorrow comes only and always after pleasure has been experienced; the knowledge of what has been had is added to the memory of past joys.

|Etienne De La Boetie, Discours sur la Servitude Volontaire

14.05.2025 07:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"To an intellectually superior person, solitude provides a dual benefit: first, to be with oneself, and second, to be without others."

Arthur Schopenhauer |

Two benefits means as follows:
1) Freedom to be alone with one's inner world
2) Freedom from the burden of ordinary social relationships

10.05.2025 05:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

09.05.2025 05:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Thinking is indeed painful. Because it leads to permanent creations and doubt. Thinking seems like a burden to man. So, to escape from being a very big part of man, they become hypnotized by an ideology or belief of their own."

β€”Jiddu Krishnamurti

08.05.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In a well-governed state, punishments are few. This is not because there are many pardons, but because of the small number of criminals.

β€”Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Du Contrat Social,Book 2, Chapter 5,1762

04.05.2025 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œAs long as you are praised, you believe that you are not yet walking your own path, but on someone else.”

Friedrich Nietzsche | The Wanderer and His Shadow

02.05.2025 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œHonest anger is better than hypocritical kindness.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

02.05.2025 03:44 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"What is worse than a bad investment is a bad investment made with borrowed money."

| D.Chilton

01.05.2025 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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19.04.2025 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œHitler’s most terrible crime was that he made lying and deception respectable, and that what had been considered crimes for thousands of years was accepted as state art and the art of life.”

Stefan Zweig
(Diaries, p.456)

19.04.2025 06:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œPositions and titles may make people important, but they do not make them valuable. The fundamental measure of being elite is being valuable.”

D.Ergil

19.04.2025 03:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"It is as dangerous to give power to an immoral man as it is to give a sword to a madman."

β€” Pythagoras

18.04.2025 08:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Everything passes but quality literature remains. What has changed from Homer to here but Homer has not changed.

A.Altan - The Special History of Loneliness

13.04.2025 05:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œIf you remain silent against injustice, you will lose your honor along with your rights.”
Hz. Ali

12.04.2025 06:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hate and fear are lies.They turn us against each other.Those are the lies that make us slaves.

|Quote from the movie Ben-Hur

11.04.2025 09:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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06.04.2025 05:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the important thing is to change it."

K.Marx's Thesis 11 (from Theses on Feuerbach):

*German:

"DiePhilosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden
interpretiert; es kommt aber darauf an, sie zu verΓ€ndern."

06.04.2025 03:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œDefeat is not a failure;failure occurs when you quit.”
Napoleon Hill

06.04.2025 03:17 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Γ–nerme tΓΌmden yanlış.

06.04.2025 03:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0