"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days."

Franklin, Benjamin on guests
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"The things which hurt, instruct."

Franklin, Benjamin on learning
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"He that won't be counseled can't be helped."

Franklin, Benjamin on learning
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"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late"

Franklin, Benjamin on life
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"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."

Franklin, Benjamin on love
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"Creditors have better memories than debtors."

Franklin, Benjamin on memory
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"Most people would rather give than get affection."

Aristotle on affection
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"Words are loaded pistols."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on words
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"Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on love
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"If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on loneliness
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"Hell is other people."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on hell
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"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

Sagan, Carl Edward on curiosity   

"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

Aristotle on discipline
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"Education is the best provision for old age."

Aristotle on education
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"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

Aristotle on education
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"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."

Aristotle on equality
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"No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye."

Aristotle on evil
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle on excellence
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"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on genius
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"Happiness is activity."

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

Plato on truth
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"Truth is its own reward."

Plato on truth
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"Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike."

Plato on democracy
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"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

Plato on education
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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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"Even the gods love jokes."

Plato on humor   

"Love is a serious mental disease."

Plato on love
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"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."

Plato on love
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"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."

Plato on love
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"They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases."

Plato on medicine
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"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."

Plato on men
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"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."

Plato on opinions   

"When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself."

Plato on psychology
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"I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning."

Plato on science   

"Science is nothing but perception."

Plato on science
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"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on lies and lying
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"Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy."

Aristotle on anger
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"In Heaven all the interesting people are missing."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on heaven
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"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on individuality
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"The word Christianity is already a misunderstanding -- in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on jesus christ
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