Simone de Beauvoir
(1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
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Variant: A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
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Confucius
(-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Attributed on the internet but not found in print prior to an attribution in Aero Digest, Vols. 58–59, 1949, p. 115 https://books.google.com/books?id=q2ofAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Life+is+simple%22+but+we+insist+on+making+it+complicated&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Life+is+simple%22+
Misattributed, Not Chinese
“When you have something to say, silence is a lie.”
Jordan Peterson
(1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
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Aristotle
(-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
Variant: Love all, trust a few.
Source: All's Well That Ends Well
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