"If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation."

Hubbard, Kin on vacation
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"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."

Hubbard, Elbert on vacation
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"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ability
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"Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me."

Bierce, Ambrose on egotism   

"Consul. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country."

Bierce, Ambrose on diplomacy   

"I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known."

Confucius on fame
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"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star."

Confucius on ignorance
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"Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in."

Confucius on action
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"To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."

Confucius on knowledge
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"We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves."

Confucius on happiness
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"Have no friends not equal to yourself."

Confucius on friends and friendship
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"The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them."

Confucius on faults
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"The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them."

Confucius on fathers
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"It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family."

Confucius on family
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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Confucius on failure
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"Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it."

Confucius on learning
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"To love a thing means wanting it to live."

Confucius on love
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"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."

Confucius on mistakes
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"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

Sun Tzu on war
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"Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."

Sun Tzu on persuasion
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"When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce."

Sun Tzu on diplomacy
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"The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim."

Sun Tzu on decisions
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"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

Confucius on beauty
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"Silence is the true friend that never betrays."

Confucius on silence
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"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large."

Confucius on self-talk
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"In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of."

Confucius on poverty and the poor
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"A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door."

Confucius on planning
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"Study the past if you would divine the future."

Confucius on past
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"Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true."

Caesar, Julius on men
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"Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him."

Barrie, Sir James M. on men
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"Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it."

Anouilh, Jean on men   

"Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate."

Angelis, Barbara De on men
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"We are franker towards others than towards ourselves."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on frankness
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"And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on forgiveness
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"One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on egotism
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"Men are what their mothers made them."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on men
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"There must be some reason why a man must be convinced, while a woman must be persuaded."

Fleming, Robert B. on men
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"Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren. Manhood at the most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action."

Gilder, George on men   

"What God wants are men great enough to be small enough to be used."

Unknown, Source on men
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"All men are two meters tall... give or take a meter."

Unknown, Source on men