"Only one thing is certain -- that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also false."

Paradox, Ancient on certainty   

"There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest."

Confucius on wisdom
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"He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king."

Augustine, St. on freedom
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"What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists."

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio on reality   

"Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable."

Bhagavad Gita on death
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"When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery."

Gorky, Maxim on work
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"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody."

Franklin, Benjamin on contentment
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"If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other."

La Bruyere, Jean De on life
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"Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on happiness
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"Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing."

Howard, Thomas on hell
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"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power."

Lao-Tzu on power
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"Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding."

Wilde, Oscar on extravagance
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"What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."

Hemingway, Ernest on morality
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"Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it."

Penn, William on right and rightness
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"When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird."

Antrim, Minna on women
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"What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."

Sontag, Susan on beauty   

"It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed."

Pascal, Blaise on obedience   

"Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?"

Aeschylus on pain
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"There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is."

Bradley, Bill on pain
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"Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign."

Bryant, William C. on pain
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"All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief."

Cicero, Marcus T. on pain
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"There are no gains without pains."

Franklin, Benjamin on pain
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"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."

Gibran, Kahlil on pain
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"Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again."

Harte, Bret on pain
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"The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset."

Jefferson, Thomas on pain
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"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."

Johnson, Samuel on pain   

"Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life."

Lamb, Charles on pain
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"An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason."

Syrus, Publilius on anger
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"Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays."

Kierkegaard, Søren on prayer
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"When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change."

Falkland, Lucius C. on change
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"He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything."

Proverb, Arabian on hope
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"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."

Smiles, Samuel on hope
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"You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do."

Lebowitz, Fran on character
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"To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last -- but eat you he will."

Reagan, Ronald on action
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"The person who lives by hope will die by despair."

Proverb, Italian on despair
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"Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one."

Gracian, Baltasar on gratitude
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"Amateurs hope, professionals work."

Kanin, Garson on hope
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"Hope and fear are inseparable."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on hope
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"Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness."

Nobel, Alfred on hope
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"He who does not hope to win has already lost."

Olmedo, Jose Joaquin on hope
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