1 John Adams

1 Samuel Adams

4 Hannah Arendt

3 Aristotle

3 Marcus Aurelius

1 Claude Bernard

1 Norman Bethune

1 Ambrose Bierce

1 William Blake

3 Napoleon Bonaparte

1 Charlotte Bront

1 Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1 William Cullen Bryant

4 Edmund Burke

1 George Carlin

1 Thomas Carlyle

1 Coco Chanel

1 Anton Chekhov

11 Cicero

1 Arthur C. Clarke

2 Carl von Clausewitz

1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1 Confucious

1 Jacques-Yves Cousteau

1 Salvador Dali

1 Clarence Darrow

1 Charles Darwin

1 René Descartes

2 John Dewey

1 Marlene Dietrich

1 Fyodor Dostoyevsky

3 Arthur Conan Doyle

4 Albert Einstein

1 Dwight D. Eisenhower

4 Ralph Waldo Emerson

2 Epictetus

2 Epicurus

1 Euripides

1  Viktor E. Frankl

1 Benjamin Franklin

1 Khalil Gibran

17 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1 Frederick the Great

1 Stephen Hawking

6 Friedrich A. Hayek

2 Friedrich August von Hayek

2 Henry Hazlitt

1 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

2 Hegel

1 Katharine Hepburn

1 Hesiod

1 Hippocrates

2 Oliver Wendell Holmes

1 Homer

1 Elbert Hubbart

1 Victor Hugo

1 Aldous Huxley

1 Robert G. Ingersoll

1 Henry James

2 William James

5 Thomas Jefferson

1 Samuel Johnson

4 Juvenal

2 Immanuel Kant

5 John F. Kennedy

7 John Maynard Keynes

1 Soren Kierkegaard

1 Søren Kierkegaard

1 Henry Kissinger

1 Jack Layton

1 Bruce Lee

1 Vladimir Lenin

8 Abraham Lincoln

5 John Locke

1 Moses Maimonides

1 Groucho Marx

1 Marshall McLuhan

1 Golda Meir

1 H. L. Mencken

2 H.L. Mencken

1 John Stuart Mill

4 Ludwig von Mises

1 Michel de Montaigne

7 Montesquieu

1 Edward R. Murrow

7 Friedrich Nietzsche

3 Kilroy J. Oldster

1 George Orwell

3 Thomas Paine

1 Blaise Pascal

2 George S. Patton

1 Frederick S. Perls

1 John Pilger

4 Plato

6 Bias of Priene

1 Ayn Rand

1 Ronald Reagan

1 Ronald Reagan

1 François de La Rochefoucauld

1 Eleanor Roosevelt

1 Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1 Bertrand Russell

1 Carl Sagan

1 George Santayana

3 Jean-Paul Sartre

18 Arthur Schopenhauer

2 Arthur Schopenhauer

1 Seneca

10 Seneca

3 William Shakespeare

1 George Bernard Shaw

2 Fulton J. Sheen

10 Adam Smith

1 Betty Smith

5 Socrates

1 Susan Sontag

5 Sophocles

1 Stephen Spielberg

2 Baruch Spinoza

2 John Steinbeck

2 Tacitus

1 Alfred Lord Tennyson

1 Alvin Toffler

3 Leo Tolstoy

6 Mark Twain

3 Lao Tzu

1 Sun Tzu

4 Virgil

3 Voltaire

3 Kurt Vonnegut

1 George Washington

1 William Westmoreland

2 Oscar Wilde

1 W.B. Yeats

1 William Pitt the Younger
Epicurus
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
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Epicurus
When we say . . . that pleasure is the end and aim, we do not mean the pleasures of the prodigal or the pleasures of sensuality, as we are understood to do by some through ignorance, prejudice or wilful misrepresentation. By pleasure we mean the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the soul. It is not by an unbroken succession of drinking bouts and of revelry, not by sexual lust, nor the enjoyment of fish and other delicacies of a luxurious table, which produce a pleasant life; it is sober reasoning, searching out the grounds of every choice and avoidance, and banishing those beliefs through which the greatest tumults take possession of the soul.
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