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"Nothing humbles a rich man better than a poor man that isn't willing to do 'anything' for money."

"You will get closer to the truths only when you start thinking this way: My religion is not the best religion, my country is not the best country, my culture is not the best culture, and my life is not the best life! The more you move away from arrogance, pride and prejudice, the more you will get closer to the truth!"

"Never try to prove that you are right or superior. Let the Lord Himself fight for you."

"We humble ourselves under the mighty grace of the Creator. He will deliver us from every chain and oppression."
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"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."

"Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state."

"No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils."

"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."

"When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it."

"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."

"There is one way, then, in which a man can be free from all anxiety about the fate of his soul - if in life he has abandoned bodily pleasures and adornments, as foreign to his purpose and likely to do more harm than good, and has devoted himself to the pleasures of acquiring knowledge, and so by decking his soul not with a borrowed beauty but with its own - with self-control, and goodness, and courage, and liberality, and truth - has fitted himself to await his journey in the next world."
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