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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.
Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.
When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
We suffer as a result of our own actions; it is unfair to blame anybody for it.
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
If the reader doesn't understand what you're saying, you're talking to yourself.
Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world.
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.
I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.
Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.
The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic.
Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
Paganism is the worship of life itself in its supreme mysteries of ecstasy and love.
He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself
A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence."
The grace of God is the thing that is needful. One should pray for the grace of God.
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity."
To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.
Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.
It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.
My dream is remaking and reforming a more sustainable, more livable, delicious future.
A person cannot all of a sudden become good at what they do just by switching streams.
I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.
Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.
I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.
Praise is essential in developing the right attitude toward learning and toward school.
People have to live by rules in the world. Why do we pretend in school that they don't?
Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.
It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.
So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.
An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.
I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.
A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.