"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on peace
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"Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue."

France, Anatole on innocence   

"Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life."

Kraus, Karl on learning
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"Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave."

Kraus, Karl on democracy
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"The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone."

Pope John XXIII on peace
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"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on peace
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"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."

Franklin, Benjamin on desire
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"Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue."

Bacon, Francis on prosperity
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"Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive."

James, Clive on worry
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"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full."

Proust, Marcel on suffering
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"Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on suffering
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"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

Francis of Assisi, St. on impossibility
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"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

Everett, Douglas on ability
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"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

Frost, Robert on education
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"Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?"

Carson, Johnny on opportunity
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"Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth."

Borge, Victor on humor
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind."

Graham, James on marriage
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"There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can."

Twain, Mark on speculation
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"We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race."

Twain, Mark on success
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"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

Mann, Thomas on tolerance
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"When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people."

Twain, Mark on deception
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"There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever."

Gandhi, Mahatma on worry
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"What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things."

Unknown, Source on love
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"Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering."

Landor, Walter Savage on absence
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"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."

Ardele, Jean Anouilh on love
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"When all is said and done, more is said than done."

Holtz, Lou on action
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"To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy."

D'Amato, Cus on opponents   

"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways."

Pascal, Blaise on art
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"Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists."

Pascal, Blaise on belief
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"Weak people cannot be sincere."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on sincerity
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"Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor."

Aleichem, Sholom on life
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