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"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"The worst men often give the best advice"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks"
Douglas Adams, Writer
"Prevention is better than cure"
Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher
"In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king"
Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher
"All that spirits desire, spirits attain"
Kahlil Gibran, Poet
"Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter"
Jose Rizal, Writer
"Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come"
Rabindranath Tagore, Poet
"By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower"
Rabindranath Tagore, Poet
"Cleverness is not wisdom"
Euripides, Poet
"There is no coming to consciousness without pain"
Carl Jung, Psychologist
"No man was ever great by imitation"
Samuel Johnson, Author
"The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought"
Pythagoras, Mathematician
"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone"
Blaise Pascal, Philosopher
"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete"
Epictetus, Philosopher
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
"I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise"
Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher
"With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories"
Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher
"Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head"
Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher
"Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... One can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end"
George Orwell, Author
"Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears"
Marcus Aurelius, Soldier
"Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live"
Marcus Aurelius, Soldier
"To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution"
Marcus Aurelius, Soldier
"Where a man can live, he can also live well"
Marcus Aurelius, Soldier
"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul"
Marcus Aurelius, Soldier
"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences"
Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer
"Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly"
Richard Bach, Novelist
"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
"Only a mediocre person is always at his best"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
"It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer"
Virginia Woolf, Author
"To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another"
Ovid, Poet
"Any landscape is a condition of the spirit"
Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher
"We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others"
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer
"It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves"
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer
"He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks"
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing"
Socrates, Philosopher
"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing"
Socrates, Philosopher
"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate"
Socrates, Philosopher
"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny"
Socrates, Philosopher
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