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"Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence."
"No one is a champion of virtue, but they all agree that to be truly wise is to love wisdom."
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
"Knowledge which is not used is a waste."
"The soul takes nothing with her to the world of the dead but her education and her deeds."
"There is no greater evil than the lack of knowledge."
"Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder."
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"The greatest tragedy is to be in an unworthy partnership."
"If you want the right answers, you must ask the right questions."
"Those who tell the stories rule the world."
"He who commits injustice is ever made more good by the injustice he commits."
"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."
"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men."
"State a lie and you will be sworn to it."
"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."
"There is no harm in repeating a good thing."
"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
"Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind."
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"No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education."
"Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil."
"Time is a creation of the mind."
"Man is made for society, as a spider is made for a web."
"The first and best victory is to conquer self."
"The soul of a man is the measure of his value."
"Those who tell the stories also hold the power."
"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."
"What is honored in a country will be cultivated there."
"The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift."
"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself."
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
"Thinking the right thoughts is a good way to be virtuous."
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"And what is a greater thing than a right thought?"
"Knowledge is the food of the soul."
"Love is a serious mental disease."
"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life."
"No one is a despot if he does not also have a will to power."
"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."
"Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice."
"If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it."
"The greatest penalty of evildoing is to grow into the likeness of bad men."
"The true creator is necessity, which is the mother of our inventions."
"To find yourself, think for yourself."
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
"Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil."
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."
"Bacchanal and drunkenness are the best charms of the soul to let man forget a wealthy life."
"Philosophy begins in wonder."
"The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself."
"Justice means minding your own business and not meddling with other men's concerns."
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."
"Necessity is the mother of invention."
"The soul of man is immortal and imperishable."
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
"Courage is knowing what not to fear."
"To love is to be in a state of education."
"No human thing is of serious importance."
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
"Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind."
"There's a simple solution to every problem; it's called the law of averages."
"If a man is in a hurry, he may miss the opportunity of finding the truth."
"The measure of a man is what he does with power."
"There is truth in wine and children."
"The greatest lessons in life are learned at the worst times."
"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."
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