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"Wisdom begins in wonder."
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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!'."
"A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to be silent."
"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."
"Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy."
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"Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously to answer wisely to consider soberly and to decide impartially."
"It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from absolute Beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute Beauty, and for no other reason... [I]t is by Beauty that beautiful things are beautiful."
"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise."
"Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death."
"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."
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