Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
Author: Sir Francis Bacon
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If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
Author: Horace
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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: Walden
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Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Author: Samuel Goldwyn
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I will not add another word.
Author: Horace
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While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?
Author: Confucius
Source: The Confucian Analects, bk. 11
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Look with favour upon a bold beginning.
Author: Virgil
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I think, therefore I am dangerous.
Author: Unknown
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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
Author: Publilius Syrus
Source: Maxims
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It is not righteousness to outrage
A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
Author: Sophocles
Source: Ajax
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A second wife
is hateful to the children of the first;
a viper is not more hateful.
Author: Euripides
Source: Alcestis, 438 B.C.
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Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
Author: Homer
Source: The Iliad
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In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
Author: Douglas Adams
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: Walden
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Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
Author: Horace
Source: Epistles
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Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
Author: Woody Allen
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Author: Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
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