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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. (Sophocles)
Speak no ill of a friend, nor even of an enemy. View quote
Pittacus of Mytilene
No one has ever become poor by giving. View quote
Anne Frank
Freedom is a clear conscience. View quote
Periander
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. View quote
Socrates
Silence is the true friend that never betrays. View quote
Confucius
True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true. View quote
Laozi
If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you. View quote
Frank Sinatra
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. View quote
Aristotle
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself. View quote
Livy
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. (Confucius)
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. View quote
Confucius
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. View quote
Confucius
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. View quote
Cicero
A rolling stone can gather no moss. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. View quote
Aristotle
One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say. View quote
Voltaire
Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge. View quote
Carl Jung
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. (Herman Melville)
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. View quote
Sun Tzu
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. View quote
Tacitus
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)