"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."

Aristotle on wise words 1
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"Punctuality is the politeness of kings."

Louis XVIII on punctuality   

"A king should die on his feet."

Louis XVIII on kings   

"Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best."

Firnstahl, Timothy on delegation   

"Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire."

El-Sadat, Anwar on slavery
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"You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these."

Virgil on adversity
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"Evil is nourished and grows by concealment."

Virgil on evil
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"Rumor grows as it goes."

Virgil on gossip   

"Trust not to much to appearances."

Virgil on appearance   

"Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love."

Virgil on love
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"Death twitches my ear. Live, he says, I am coming."

Virgil on death
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"One of the stupidest theories of Western life."

Muggeridge, Malcolm on evolution   

"The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized."

Muggeridge, Malcolm on heaven   

"Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper."

Aurobindo, Ghose on duty   

"The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation."

Aurobindo, Ghose on freedom   

"Never, never, never, never give up."

Churchill, Winston on perseverance
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"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on goals
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"Habits change into character."

Ovid on habit
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"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope."

Ovid on hope
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"The end is never as satisfying as the journey. To have achieved everything but to have done so without integrity and excitement is to have achieved nothing."

Unknown, Source on ending
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"People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all."

Unknown, Source on change
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"Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love."

Wastholm, Peter on women
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"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."

Tan, Amy on attitude
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"To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up."

Nash, Ogden on marriage
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"Necessity is the mother of taking chances."

Twain, Mark on necessity
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"If you don't run your own life, somebody else will."

Atkinson, John on character
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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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"Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other."

Richards, Mary Caroline on action
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