The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.
Author: Confucius
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Author: Aesop
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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Author: Plato
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By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
Author: Confucius
Source: The Confucian Analects
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We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.
Author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Author: Bertrand Russell
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The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Author: Khalil Gibran
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I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
Author: Aesop
Source: The Man and the Satyr
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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
Author: William Penn
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Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
Author: Aesop
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
Author: Albert Einstein
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We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
Author: Khalil Gibran
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The gods help them that help themselves.
Author: Aesop
Source: Hercules and the Wagoner
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Familiarity breed contempt.
Author: Aesop
Source: The Fox and the Lion
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