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A true philosopher is he who knows how to forget about yourself.

A good doctor should be a philosopher.

Physicians, like philosophers, with reverence for the gods. For though they can do a lot to treat, but they more than others have the opportunity and occasion to see and understand that there is much that superior to them in strength and skill, is in itself, beyond anything but the will from above.

Philosopher and physician are United in the denial of intemperance, covetousness, contempt in his inordinate greed, avarice, theft and shamelessness.

Philosophers and doctors have the same attitude to friendship, to children, to property.

Philosophers sometimes discuss dialectical subtleties that are not applicable in living life. Doctors are dealing with specific life events, with practice.

People are ready to have a little fun, listen to the philosophers, as they listened to the Fiddler or buffoon. But in order to do so, as advises a sensible man, never. Whenever I had to make a choice between reasonable and insane, humanity always unhesitatingly followed the madman. For the madman appeals to the very essence of man - his passions and instincts. Philosophers appeal to an external and secondary is the reason.

Perhaps we mortals can only be true philosophers, when consciously don't want it.

If God wanted to create such a person, how it is represented by philosophers, that man would have had the same day to send to a madhouse.

To philosophize is to protect the inner genius of reproach and blemish, to ensure that he was above the pleasures and pains that it was not in his actions, nor folly, no deception, no hypocrisy, not to touch it, doing or not doing something his neighbor, to everything and given him an inheritance he looked like stemming out from where came forth himself, and most importantly - that he was meekly waiting for death, as a simple expansion of those elements that have created every living thing. But if the elements there's nothing wrong with their continuous transition into each other, where reason to fear anyone of their total change and decay? Because the latter, according to the nature, and the fact that, according to the nature, can't be bad.

All ancient philosophy was oriented on simplicity of life and taught a certain unassuming. In this sense, few philosophers are vegetarians did mankind a great service, than all new philosophers, and as long as these philosophers do not gain the courage and will not go in search of a completely different lifestyle, and show it by example, they will be an empty place.

.. Ah, you think? You mean, sometimes you think? You are a thinker. What is your name, thinker? Spinoza? Jean-Jacques Rousseau? Marcus Aurelius?..

I studied inog philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is immeasurably higher.

A wise man seeks the truth, and the fool found her.