"Silence is the true friend that never betrays."

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

Confucius on simplicity
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"Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue."

Confucius on sincerity
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"Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing."

Confucius on worry
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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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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

Landers, Ann on value
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"Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on value
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"The best thing in life aren't things."

Ruskin, John on value
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"'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace."

Buddha on peace
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"It is he who has broken the bond of marriage -- not I. I only break its bondage."

Wilde, Oscar on divorce
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"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."

Confucius on mistakes
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"Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?"

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

Confucius on love
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"You must give up the way it is... to have it the way you want it"

Unknown, Source on choice
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"Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do."

Waitley, Denis on choice   

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

Waitley, Denis on choice
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"Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before."

West, Mae on choice
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"When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have."

Wister, Owen on choice   

"Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things."

Confucius on faith
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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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"Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldn't not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf."

Confucius on forgiveness
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"With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things."

Confucius on joy
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"Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness."

Confucius on kindness
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"If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?"

Confucius on leadership
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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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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."

Wilde, Oscar on emotions
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Wilde, Oscar on goals
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"If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism."

Wilde, Oscar on goodness
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"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

Wilde, Oscar on gossip
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"It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true."

Wilde, Oscar on gossip
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"When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy."

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

Wilde, Oscar on happiness
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"Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt."

Wilde, Oscar on work
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"They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not."

Wilde, Oscar on husbands
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"The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes."

Wilde, Oscar on husbands
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"The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it."

Wilde, Oscar on hypocrisy
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"How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say."

Wilde, Oscar on hypocrisy
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"The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young."

Wilde, Oscar on age and aging
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"A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude."

Wilde, Oscar on gentlemen
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"Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much."

Wilde, Oscar on forgiveness
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