"Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life."

Wilde, Oscar on failure
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"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."

Wilde, Oscar on democracy
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"There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People."

Wilde, Oscar on despotism
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"Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things."

Wilde, Oscar on despotism
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"Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography."

Wilde, Oscar on disciples
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"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation."

Wilde, Oscar on discontent
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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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"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on duty
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"The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."

Wilde, Oscar on emotions
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"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."

Wilde, Oscar on excellence
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"Alas, I am dying beyond my means."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity."

Wilde, Oscar on abstinence
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"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on advice
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"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."

Edison, Thomas A. on action
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"The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary."

Smith, May V. on success
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"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."

Orwell, George on war
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"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."

Jefferson, Thomas on greed
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"No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal."

Ferguson, Marilyn on change
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"Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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"They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them."

Gandhi, Mahatma on self-respect
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"Where there is love there is life."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love."

Aristotle on love
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"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

Plato on forgiveness
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"Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning."

Miller, Henry on life
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"A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both."

Wilde, Oscar on pessimism
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"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."

Franklin, Benjamin on desire
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"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."

Thoreau, Henry David on time
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