"The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct."
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"Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do."
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"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error."
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"I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war."
― Cicero
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"It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment."
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"So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge."
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"It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own."
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"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
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"A man of courage is also full of faith."
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"It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness."
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"Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat."
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"The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter."
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"It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment."
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"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."
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