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"If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics."
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Personal Development
"If you want to know the value of a week ask the editor of a weekly magazine if he fails to meet up with the target of his weekly publication."
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Personal Development
"Gold may shine, but it has no true light."
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Personal Development
"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."
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Personal Development
"All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values."
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Personal Development
"Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that friendship is not a bit less fickle than love and it is impossible to build anything on it. Self-love? I wish it were possible."
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Personal Development
"People who do not have a price tag attached to them are priceless."
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Personal Development
"Your mind is a gift. Your heart is a prize. Your soul is a blessing. Your life is a reward."
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Personal Development
"How we spend our money, however little we have, still reveals what we value."
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Personal Development
"Even the most beautiful girl in the world becomes unsightly without depth of character."
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"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."
Life
"God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us."
Spiritual
"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."
Relationship
"Be as you wish to seem."
Philosophy
"Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, 'both you and your house."
Philosophy
"Wisdom is knowing you know nothing."
Knowledge
"I am a citizen not of Athens or Greece but of the world."
Philosophy
"Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."
Mortality
"My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves."
Self-Help
"Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state."
Ethics
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