"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away."

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"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away."

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

George Eliot, British Author

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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future."

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"Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes."

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"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

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"How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time."

Time

"When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse."

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"Shall not ILearn place and wisdom? Have I not learned this,Only so much to hate my enemy,As though he might again become my friend,And so much good to wish to do my friend,As knowing he may yet become my foe?"

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

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"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future."

"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."

"Not even Ares battles against necessity."

"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

"All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit."

"Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes."

"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

"How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time."

"When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse."

"Shall not ILearn place and wisdom? Have I not learned this,Only so much to hate my enemy,As though he might again become my friend,And so much good to wish to do my friend,As knowing he may yet become my foe?"