"If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else."

Giovanni, Nikki on understanding
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"There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave."

Giovanni, Nikki on submission   

"Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts."

Giovanni, Nikki on mistakes   

"We love because it's the only true adventure."

Giovanni, Nikki on love
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"You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best."

Thomas, John M. on character
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"Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise."

Thomas, John M. on happiness
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"As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it."

Horace on adversity
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"Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse."

Smith, Adam on analysis
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"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?"

Smith, Adam on happiness   

"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience."

Smith, Adam on virtue   

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."

Smith, Adam on trade unions   

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"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages."

Smith, Adam on self-interest   

"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."

Smith, Adam on science   

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"The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness."

Smith, Adam on mind   

"Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this."

Smith, Adam on humankind   

"Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man."

Smith, Adam on humankind   

"Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence."

Smith, Adam on hatred   

"The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen."

Lacordaire, Jean Baptiste on affection
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"Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on sincerity
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"Living with a saint is more grueling than being one."

Neville, Robert on association
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation."

Wilde, Oscar on discontent
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"Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography."

Wilde, Oscar on disciples
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"Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy."

Wilde, Oscar on dictators and dictatorship
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"Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things."

Wilde, Oscar on despotism
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"There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People."

Wilde, Oscar on despotism
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"Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night."

Wilde, Oscar on despair
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"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."

Wilde, Oscar on democracy
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"For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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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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"Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets."

Wilde, Oscar on academia
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"Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity."

Wilde, Oscar on abstinence
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"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."

Wilde, Oscar on dress
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"Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness."

Wilde, Oscar on dullness
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"The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered."

Wilde, Oscar on duty
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"I can believe anything provided it is incredible."

Wilde, Oscar on faith
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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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"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

Wilde, Oscar on faces
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