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[
  {
    "category": "philosophy",
    "content": "Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.",
    "attribution": "Marcus Aurelius, Meditations"
  },
  {
    "category": "philosophy",
    "content": "It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.",
    "attribution": "Epictetus"
  },
  {
    "category": "philosophy",
    "content": "It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.",
    "attribution": "Seneca, On the Shortness of Life"
  },
  {
    "category": "philosophy",
    "content": "The beginning is the most important part of the work.",
    "attribution": "Plato, The Republic"
  },
  {
    "category": "philosophy",
    "content": "All men by nature desire to know.",
    "attribution": "Aristotle, Metaphysics"
  },
  {
    "category": "philosophy",
    "content": "I think, therefore I am.",
    "attribution": "Rene Descartes, Discourse on the Method"
  },
  {
    "category": "philosophy",
    "content": "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.",
    "attribution": "Confucius, Analects"
  },
  {
    "category": "philosophy",
    "content": "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.",
    "attribution": "Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching"
  },
  {
    "category": "philosophy",
    "content": "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.",
    "attribution": "Socrates"
  },
  {
    "category": "philosophy",
    "content": "Stoicism is a school of ancient Greek philosophy that teaches the practice of virtue as the only true good, and encourages focusing only on what lies within one's own control.",
    "attribution": "Unknown"
  },
  {
    "category": "philosophy",
    "content": "Existentialism explores questions about individual freedom, choice, and meaning, arguing that people must create their own purpose in a universe that does not provide one automatically.",
    "attribution": "Unknown"
  },
  {
    "category": "philosophy",
    "content": "The Socratic method uses a series of questions and answers to expose contradictions in a person's beliefs, encouraging deeper critical thinking rather than simply providing answers.",
    "attribution": "Unknown"
  },
  {
    "category": "philosophy",
    "content": "The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.",
    "attribution": "Marcus Aurelius, Meditations"
  },
  {
    "category": "philosophy",
    "content": "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.",
    "attribution": "Seneca, Letters from a Stoic"
  },
  {
    "category": "philosophy",
    "content": "Utilitarianism holds that the right action is the one that produces the greatest good for the greatest number of people, judging morality by outcomes rather than intentions.",
    "attribution": "Unknown"
  },
  {
    "category": "philosophy",
    "content": "The unexamined life is not worth living, but the over-examined life is not lived at all. Somewhere between acting without thought and thinking without acting is the narrow place where a person actually gets anywhere.",
    "attribution": "Unknown"
  },
  {
    "category": "philosophy",
    "content": "A question is not made better by being harder to answer. Much of what passes for depth is a sentence arranged so that no evidence could settle it, which is not profundity but a way of never being wrong.",
    "attribution": "Unknown"
  },
  {
    "category": "philosophy",
    "content": "Freedom and choice are not the same thing. More options can leave a person less able to act, because every additional alternative adds the cost of considering it and the regret of having passed it over.",
    "attribution": "Unknown"
  },
  {
    "category": "philosophy",
    "content": "What we call a self is mostly a story told after the fact. The decision arrives first, the reason is assembled afterwards, and the account is convincing precisely because the same mind wrote both halves.",
    "attribution": "Unknown"
  }
]