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“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
"What you do not want others to do to you do not do to others."
— Confucius
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."
— Cicero
"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend."
— Bruce Lee
"We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power."
— Bertrand Russell
"Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand."
— Spinoza
"No one should be ashamed to admit that they do not know what they do not know, in case while feigning knowledge, they come to deserve to never know."
— Saint Augustine
"America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
— Tocqueville
"To err is human to forgive divine."
— Alexander Pope
"Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged."
— Chinua Achebe
"It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily."
— Martin Scorsese
"A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue, and a wise man's tongue is under the control of his mind."
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
"Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships."
— Zora Neale Hurston
"The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world."
— Zhuangzi
"He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
— Sir Winston Churchill
"Men in rage strike those that wish them best."
— Shakespeare
"Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society."
— William Thackeray
"Not to be provoked is best but if moved never correct till the fume is spent for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last."
— William Penn
"The smaller the drink the clearer the head and the cooler the blood."
"He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence."
— William Blake