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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

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Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

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Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

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Philosophy is the highest music.

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The time to buy stocks is consistently over time. You should never buy your investments with the idea, 'I have to get a certain return.' You should look at the best return possible and learn to live with that. But you should not try to make your investments earn what you feel you need. It doesn't work that way. The stock doesn't know you own it.

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How can you lay claim to faith, when you have no patience at all. Surely you must have heard the saying of the prophet, peace and blessings be upon him "patience is to faith, as the head is to the body."

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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

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We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

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The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.

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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

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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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The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons.

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Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

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Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

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Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should I not be prey to myself?

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