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I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother's milk.

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Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.

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Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

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Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.

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It pays to be prepared.

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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

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Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?

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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

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The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

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"Talent Is God Given. Be Humble. Fame Is Man-given. Be Grateful. Conceit Is Self-given. Be Careful."

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If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.

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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

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True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

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There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

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This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.

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For wisdom is the property of the dead, A something incompatible with life; and power, Like everything that has the stain of blood, A property of the living; but no stain Can come upon the visage of the moon When it has looked in glory from a cloud.

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It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.

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If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth.

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