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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."

"Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied."

"It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course."

"The intelligent are candles, the virtuous are torches, the wise are lamps, and the enlightened are stars."

"Wisdom is not in intelligence but in simplicity."

"Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper."
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"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

"Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses."

"To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect."

"People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure."

"Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here."

"The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him."

"If you want to govern the people,You must place yourself below them.If you want to lead people,You must learn how to follow them."
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