"If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse."

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"If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse."

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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."

"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."

"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."

"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."

"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."

"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."

"Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?"

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"Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God."

"Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing."

"When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation."

"Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it."

"Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest."