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"The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism."
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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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"It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on."
"I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink."
"I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost."
"Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men."
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