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A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything. (Aristotle)
It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing. View quote
Seneca
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. View quote
Aristotle
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. View quote
Confucius
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. View quote
Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. View quote
Aristotle
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. View quote
Euripides
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. View quote
Plautus
Authority is never without hate. View quote
Euripides
We are all born mad. Some remain so. View quote
Samuel Beckett
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. (Herodotus)
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. View quote
Seneca
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Nature creates nothing without a purpose. View quote
Aristotle
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. View quote
Albert Einstein
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. View quote
Sophocles
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself. View quote
Livy
No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth. (Plato)
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. View quote
Plutarch
Eat to live, not live to eat. View quote
Socrates
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error. View quote
Cicero
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it. View quote
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