"In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears."

Paul, Jean on tears
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"The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner."

Twain, Mark on war   

"Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth."

Borne, Ludwig on belief
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"Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand."

Simpson, Homer on understanding
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"Most plans are just inaccurate predictions."

Bayol, Ben on planning
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"To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result."

Bierce, Ambrose on planning   

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"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time."

Churchill, Winston on planning
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"Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand."

Euripides on planning
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"Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm."

Richter, Jean Paul on happiness
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"It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing."

Rowland, Helen on love
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"Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again."

Ovid on time
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"I cannot afford to waste my time making money."

Agassiz, Louis on time   

"Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences."

Maurois, Andre on infidelity
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"Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies."

Wilde, Oscar on infidelity
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"To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual."

Wilde, Oscar on action
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

Wilde, Oscar on happiness
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"To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability."

Wilde, Oscar on goodness
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"Ambition is the last refuge of failure."

Wilde, Oscar on ambition
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"Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life."

Wilde, Oscar on failure
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"Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him."

Wilde, Oscar on nations
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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."

Wilde, Oscar on emotions
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"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on advice
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"Anxiety about the future never profits; we feel no evil until it comes, and when we feel it, no counsel helps; wisdom is either too early or too late."

Ruckett on anxiety
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"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."

Wilde, Oscar on moderation   

"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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"It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties."

Wilde, Oscar on business   

"If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it."

Coolidge, Calvin on silence
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"Silence is the true friend that never betrays."

Confucius on silence
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"It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it."

Beaumont, Francis on silence
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"An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind."

Bagehot, Walter on silence   

"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."

Wilde, Oscar on principles
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"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

Wilde, Oscar on people
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"Do not fear mistakes -- there are none."

Davis, Miles on mistakes
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"To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."

Augustine, St. on moderation
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"It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all."

Courteline, Georges on action
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"Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained."

Roche, Arthur Somers on anxiety
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"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

Franklin, Benjamin on anxiety
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"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."

Cioran, E. M. on suicide
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