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#1

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom

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#2

“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
― Aristotle

tags: choice, inspirational

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“Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”
― Aristotle

tags: anger

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#4

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
― Aristotle

tags: friendship

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#5

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
― Aristotle

tags: patience

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#6

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
― Aristotle

tags: fear, freedom

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#7

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
― Aristotle

tags: ethics, philosphy, self-discovery

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#8

“The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”
― Aristotle

tags: friendship

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#9

“One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.”
― Sophocles

tags: philosophy

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#10

“To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

tags: friendship

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#11

“The saddest aspect of life is that there is no one on earth whose happiness is such that he won't sometimes wish he were dead rather than alive.”
― Herodotus, The Histories

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#12

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#13

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom

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#14

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

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#15

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain

tags: death, life

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#16

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: truth

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#17

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
― Mark Twain

tags: living, world

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#18

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
― Mark Twain

tags: age

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#19

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
― Mark Twain

tags: inspirational, kindness

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#20

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
― Mark Twain

tags: happiness

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#21

“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”
― Mark Twain

tags: bank, bankers, humor

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#22

“April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.”
― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales

tags: humor

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#23

“Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”
― Mark Twain

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#24

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
― Mark Twain

tags: bravery, character, courage, moral-courage

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#25

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
― Mark Twain

tags: anger

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#26

“There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.”
― Mark Twain

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#27

“Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.”
― Mark Twain

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#28

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: writing

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#29

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
― Homer, The Iliad

tags: heart, homer, the-iliad

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#30

“For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother”
― Homer, The Odyssey

tags: friends

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