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All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds; and those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere; and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry.

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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

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Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the world benefits from it by acquiring an aversion to this world, since it spoils his contentment and the fullness of his pleasure; and everything which spoils for man his pleasures and his appetites is one of the means of deliverance.

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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

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Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people.

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Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.

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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.

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Sweet is a grief well ended.

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If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck

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It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.

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Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk

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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.

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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

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Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

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The one who admonishes his brother secretly, he has advised sincerely and has honored him. If he does it outwardly (among others) then he has dishonored and shamed him.

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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

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Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

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