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Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.

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The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

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He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove.

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True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change, even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome their problems.

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I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.

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Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.

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Give a drink of water as alms to the birds which go forth at morning, and deem that they have a better right than men [to thy charity]. For their race brings not harm upon thee in any wise, when thou fearest it from thine own race.

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I call wise man who, while he is innocent , endures insults and blows with a patience equal to its strength.

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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

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It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?

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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

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Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.

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Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.

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The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.

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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.

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Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

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It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another.

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The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.

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