"Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated."

Confucius on simplicity
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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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"Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things."

Wilde, Oscar on despotism
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"She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman."

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

Wilde, Oscar on abstinence
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"To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice."

Confucius on war
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"If you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there, what is there to fear?"

Confucius on science
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"It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."

Confucius on complaints and complaining
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"Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

Confucius on work
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"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

Confucius on wisdom
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"The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge."

Apocrypha on curiosity   

"Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength."

Apocrypha on power
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"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."

Confucius on wickedness
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"If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people."

Confucius on teacher
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"Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change."

Confucius on change
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"The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."

Aristotle on education
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"Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on acceptance
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"Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times."

Virgil on hope
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"Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love."

Virgil on love
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"Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember."

Virgil on memory   

"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage."

Austen, Jane on marriage
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"You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least."

Austen, Jane on fear
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"In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels."

Austen, Jane on affection
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"Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all."

Alexander The Great on unity
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"I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt."

A Course In Miracles on choice
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"Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward."

A Course In Miracles on perception
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"Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on childhood   

"Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world -- it is thin."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on caution   

"April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on seasons
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"Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much."

Wilde, Oscar on forgiveness
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

Aristotle on happiness
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"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on desire
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"Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on destiny
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"Education is the best provision for old age."

Aristotle on education
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"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

Confucius on wise words quote
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"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the spaces between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

Angelou, Maya on
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on action
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