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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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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

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Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

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Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?

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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

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

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

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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

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You have seen that the universe is at root a magical illusion and a fabulous game, and that there is no separate "you" to get something out of it, as if life were a bank to be robbed. The only real "you" is the one that comes and goes, manifests and withdraws itself eternally in and as every conscious being. For "you" is the universe looking at itself from billions of points of view, points that come and go so that the vision is forever new.

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People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.

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To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

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Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

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