"There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self."

Proverb, Indian on competition
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"Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. [Proverbs 17:28]"

Bible on silence
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"The tongue can paint what the eye can't see."

Proverb, Chinese on persuasion
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"You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward."

Thurber, James on persuasion   

"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."

Lincoln, Abraham on silence
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"Silence is the virtue of fools."

Bacon, Francis on silence
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"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."

Billings, Josh on silence
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"There are times when silence has the loudest voice."

Brownlow, Leroy on silence
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"Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time."

Carlyle, Thomas on silence
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"Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near."

Rowland, Helen on trust   

"The ego is not master in its own house."

Freud, Sigmund on consciousness
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"The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life."

Budgell, Eustace on wealth   

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

Socrates on death
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"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."

Socrates on wisdom
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"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."

Wilde, Oscar on wealth
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"No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person."

Cather, Willa on independence
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"It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable."

L'Estrange, Sir Roger on happiness
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"One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease."

Lawrence, D. H. on people   

"Men's faults to themselves seldom appear."

Shakespeare, William on faults
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"A good wife and health is a mans best wealth."

Proverb on wives   

"Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young."

Canby, Henry S. on teacher   

"Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity."

Proverb, Arabian on opportunity
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"The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on poverty and the poor
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"My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic."

Hugo, Victor on taste   

"I love those who do not know how to live for today."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on love
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"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

Huxley, Aldous on self-improvement
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"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."

Einstein, Albert on solitude
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"To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony."

Channing, William Henry on wealth   

"Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on wealth
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"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."

Berkowitz, Bernard on appreciation
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"There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants -- more than anything else -- to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are -- and have always been."

Loos, Anita on appreciation
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"One who does not act in accordance to the deep voice of his inner conscience can't be honest, truthful, trustworthy, loyal and faithful to anyone."

Anuj Somany on conscience   

"Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms."

Bowen, Elizabeth on conceit   

"Conceit is a queer disease -- it makes everyone Sick except the person who has it."

Unknown, Source on conceit
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"As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might."

Anderson, Marian on conflict
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"The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on conflict
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"A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune."

Unknown, Source on wealth   

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"Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street."

Woolf, Virginia on apathy
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"There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference."

Montalvo, Juan on apathy
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"Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak."

Chaplin, Ralph on apathy
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