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The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant.

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The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

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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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Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

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Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, "If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?" "Why, it stays with me, of course," the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, "And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse," he said. "I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you."

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Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

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Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

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Distance lends enchantment to the view.

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Appearances often are deceiving.

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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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A great artist is a great man in a great child.

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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If you remember the creation (gossip about such and such a person), then remember Allah the Most High. Remembering Him is the medicine for remembering His creation.

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Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.

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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

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