| Know thyself? If I knew myself, I`d run away. |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. |
| Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
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| Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worst to better. |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body. |
| Novalis |
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| Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness. |
| Stanislaus Leszczynski |
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| As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of nature - in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing - he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural. |
| Honore de Balzac |
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| By theme : Nature Philosophy Wisdom |
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| Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. |
| Dale Carnegie |
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| The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms. |
| Socrates |
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| You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. |
| Plato |
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| A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. |
| Henry Louis Mencken |
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| To accuse others for one`s 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 |
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| Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight. |
| Napoleon |
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| Pain has its own rules, and those people who tell you the human race seeks to avoid it do not, of course, know what they`re talking about. |
| Irwin Shaw |
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| Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. |
| George Santayana |
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| The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. |
| William Faulkner |
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| To see things in the seed is genius. |
| Lao Tzu |
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| The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. |
| Margaret Thatcher |
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| The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. |
| Jonathan Swift |
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| By theme : Truth Wisdom |
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| The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. |
| Henry Wheeler Shaw |
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| If a man could half his wishes he would double his troubles. |
| Benjamin Franklin |
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