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"Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom."
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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."
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"I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss."
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"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."
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"The intelligent are candles, the virtuous are torches, the wise are lamps, and the enlightened are stars."
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"Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings."
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"A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea."
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"Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life."
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"To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything."
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"When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man."
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"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
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"What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command."
Morals
"It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it."
Life
"I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness."
Happiness
"All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution."
Time
"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way."
Goal
"The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought."
Thought
"It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great."
Man
"However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks."
Life
"The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men."
Man
"There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it."
War
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