"Self conquest is the greatest of victories."

Plato on victory   

"They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth."

Plato on truth
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

Churchill, Winston on fanatics and fanaticism
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"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from."

Foster, Jodie on normality
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"I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on character
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"The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend."

Byron, Lord on animals
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"There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right."

Churchill, Winston on science
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"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."

Churchill, Winston on life
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"There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true."

Churchill, Winston on lies and lying
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"Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal."

Churchill, Winston on animals
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"Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."

Churchill, Winston on learning
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"It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right."

Churchill, Winston on honesty
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"The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so."

Plato on virtue
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."

Plato on wisdom
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"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety."

Plato on worry
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"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. "

Plato on uncategorised
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"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."

Plato on   

"We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage."

Churchill, Winston on age and aging
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"If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me."

Proverb, Italian on experience
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"The richer you get, the poorer you become."

Morfaw, Jerome on money   

"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best."

Thatcher, Margaret on art
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"Two faced people need to be seen twice."

Morfaw, Jerome on trust   

"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young."

Freud, Sigmund on neurosis
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"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."

Euripides on friends and friendship
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"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself."

Locke, John on self-esteem
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"There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents."

Yankwich, Leon R. on parents and parenting   

"I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience."

Fuller, Buckminster on genius   

"Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!"

Rowland, Helen on women   

"The heart will break, but broken live on."

Byron, Lord on art
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"Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."

Bierce, Ambrose on experience
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"To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense."

Bierce, Ambrose on forgiveness   

"An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."

Bierce, Ambrose on history and historians   

"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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"Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on age and aging
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"Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."

Bierce, Ambrose on education
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"Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship."

Bierce, Ambrose on dogs
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"Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."

Bierce, Ambrose on abstinence
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"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."

Bok, Derek on ignorance
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"A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man."

Eliot, George on mothers
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"Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on praise