"In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool."

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"In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool."

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"When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise!"

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"When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise!"

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"Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise."

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"Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear."

"Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet."

"Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them."

"I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet."

"Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults."

"I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes."

"Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you."

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."