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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
Oscar Wilde
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
Confucius
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
Confucius
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
Confucius
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Mother Teresa
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Oscar Wilde
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark Twain
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Mark Twain
'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
Mark Twain
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Mark Twain
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
William Wordsworth
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin Franklin
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Benjamin Franklin
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