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"We seek knowledge only because we desire enjoyment, and it is impossible to conceive why a person who has neither desires nor fears would take the trouble to reason."
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"Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world."
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"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."
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"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."
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"Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there."
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"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."
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"Knowledge is your treasure. How well you spend and invest it will define your wisdom."
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"Knowledge makes you powerful and proud wisdom makes you simple and humble."
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"If you were brought up on a poor man's brand of drink and prefer that to this very day then do not pretend you like expensive wine."
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"The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences."
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"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."
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"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
Nature
"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
Books
"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil."
Knowledge
"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."
Age
"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."
Performance
"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion."
Happiness
"Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases."
Knowledge
"Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death."
Death
"You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one."
Wisdom
"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."
Reading
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