Found this, thought I'd share, like his philosophy, I rather share it but would not have articulated it so clearly. I'm not a philosopher, after all...
"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things."
"No man is free who is not master of himself."
"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epictetus
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Defining Class: That group of people that make us feel comfortable in our prejudice.
- rod boyle
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Handpicked to reflect my own point of view. If I told you otherwise, would you believe me? Should you? Think about it...
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
-John Kenneth Galbraith
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.
-Mark Twain
A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
-Cyrano de Bergerac
“If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”
-John F. Kennedy
“Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.”
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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“One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all.”
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