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"How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?"
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"Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and affords an unobstructed view of the undug but awaiting grave that says 'you're next.' Unfilial as this may seem, that was not at all so in my own case. It was only when I watched Alexander [my own son] being born that I knew at once that my own funeral director had very suddenly, but quite unmistakably, stepped onto the stage. I was surprised by how calmly I took this, but also by how reluctant I was to mention it to my male contemporaries."
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"I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from."
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"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence."
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"A real value of our lives is in how we use our time as we journey from the womb to the tomb. A great difference between the womb and the tomb is the w and the t! Wasted time! We waste great and precious time as we journey from the womb to the tomb; in the end, we remember the w and the t in a simple statement of regret, 'had I known' ! The wasted time!"
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"Think of your personal and professional life-are you attracting what you want? Are you attracting the kind of people you like? Do you feel that life is working for you or against you? How have others been treating you? Are you pleased with your results?"
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"I don't dream. Come to think of it, i haven't had any dreams in a long time."
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"The play of a pain is a party."
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"Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything."
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"They didn't speak as the sun slowly sank before them. Why was it most colorful when it was about to vanish for the night? Was it angry at being forced belong the horizon? Or was it a showman, giving a performance before retiring?Why was the most colorful part of people's bodies-the brightness of their blood-hidden beneath the skin, never to be seen unless something went wrong?"
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"Uncanny situations, reasons to ponder for action!"
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"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."
Life
"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."
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"Wisdom is knowing you know nothing."
Knowledge
"Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state."
Ethics
"No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils."
Philosophy
"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
Life
"When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it."
Knowledge
"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."
Philosophy
"There is one way, then, in which a man can be free from all anxiety about the fate of his soul - if in life he has abandoned bodily pleasures and adornments, as foreign to his purpose and likely to do more harm than good, and has devoted himself to the pleasures of acquiring knowledge, and so by decking his soul not with a borrowed beauty but with its own - with self-control, and goodness, and courage, and liberality, and truth - has fitted himself to await his journey in the next world."
Philosophy
"I only know that I know nothing."
Knowledge
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