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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."
"Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously."
"Some persons can't accept the truth, due to their inability to let go of their own perceptions."
"When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'."
"Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, and doing as you say you would do."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Horace Walpole
"Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie."
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."
"Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."
"I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due."
"Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs."
"I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule."
"Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations."
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