"Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion."

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"Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion."

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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Your time is the life you have at a particular moment."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Some persons can't accept the truth, due to their inability to let go of their own perceptions."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'."

Epictetus, Greek Philosopher

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"A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to be silent."

Roy T. Bennett, American Author

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"Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, and doing as you say you would do."

Roy T. Bennett, American Author

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"Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy."

Patrick Rothfuss, Australian Athlete

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"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

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"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."

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"We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him."

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"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."

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"Man is by nature a civic animal."

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"The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk."

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"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."

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"We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else."

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"No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye."

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"I have gained this by philosophy. I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law."

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