"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."

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"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."

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Carl Jung, Swiss Psychologist

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Doris Lessing, English Writer

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"The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention."

Franz Schubert, Austrian Composer

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"When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed."

Felicity Kendal, English Actress

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Richard Russo, American Novelist

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Jerome Lawrence, American Playwright

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Ben Jonson, English Poet

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"Woe to the man who offends a small child!"

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"The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details in which real life is so rich and which these unhappy and involuntary story-tellers neglect as insignificant trifles. Oh, they have no thought to spare for such details, their minds are concentrated on their grand invention as a whole, and fancy any one daring to pull them up for a trifle! But that's how they are caught."

Reality

"A wise man is not afraid to face the truth."

Wisdom

"And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool--but only to himself, of course."

Regret

"To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's."

Philosophy

"You needn't be afraid of life! Life is so good when you do something that is good and just."

Courage

"His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, usolved doubt. He is one of those who doesn't want millions, but an answer to their questions."

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"Do you know that I love now to recall and visit at certain dates the places where Iwas once happy in my own way? I love to build up my present in harmony with the irrevocable past..."

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"Compassion is the chief law of human existence."

Ethics

"There's something here, my dear boy, that you don't understand yet. A man will fall in love with some beauty, with a woman's body, or even a part of a woman's body (a sensualist can understand that) and he'll abandon his own children for her, sell his father and mother, and his country, Russia, too. If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's humane, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive."

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