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"You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
    -- Aristotle Plato
"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction."
    -- Mark Twain
"If 5th century BC Pythagoras discovered algebraic theorems, if 19th century Darwin discovered the evolution of species, then what topics does the 21st century mind explore? I would say evolutionary psychology, primitive neuroscience, and information networks."
    -- Luigi Mangione
"I feel lucky for my 21st century education. I get to simply download the knowledge of all who came before me, allowing me to stand on their shoulders and ponder new problems they never would have had access to."
    -- Luigi Mangione

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It is better to be a beggar than ignorant; for a beggar only wants money, but an ignorant person wants humanity.Share Image

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Aristippus of Cyrene was the founder of the Cyrenaic school of Philosophy. He was a pupil of Socrates, but adopted a very different philosophical outlook, teaching that the goal of life was to seek pleasure by adapting circumstances to oneself and by maintaining proper control over both adversity and prosperity. Among his pupils was his daughter Arete.




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