"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."

Confucius on wickedness
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"A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval."

Twain, Mark on aid and assistance
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"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old."

Twain, Mark on age and aging
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"Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy."

Twain, Mark on forgiveness
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law."

Twain, Mark on family
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"We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly."

Twain, Mark on family
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"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."

Twain, Mark on example
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"Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty --the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself."

Twain, Mark on duty
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"Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul."

Twain, Mark on dress
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"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."

Twain, Mark on dissent
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"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

Twain, Mark on right and rightness
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"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed."

Twain, Mark on success
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"I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women."

Confucius on virtue
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"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."

Confucius on revenge
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"Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society."

Confucius on manners
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"The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance."

Confucius on knowledge
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"Have no friends not equal to yourself."

Confucius on friends and friendship
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"It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family."

Confucius on family
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"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake."

Confucius on failure
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"To go too far is as bad as to fall short."

Confucius on excess
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"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."

Twain, Mark on courage
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"There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice."

Twain, Mark on war
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"There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends."

Twain, Mark on success
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"I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want."

Twain, Mark on desire
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"When one has tasted it [Watermelon] he knows what the angels eat."

Twain, Mark on food and eating   

"The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety."

Confucius on family
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"Hope and fear are inseparable."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on hope
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"A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in."

Brookner, Anita on women
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"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even out virtues."

Balzac, Honore De on women
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"Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other."

Kundera, Milan on eroticism   

"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."

O'Rourke, P. J. on drugs
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"It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess."

Selden, John on alcohol and alcoholism
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"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."

Russell, Bertrand on death
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"It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts."

Chisholm, Shirley Anita on addiction
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"Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other."

Sade, Marquis De on sex
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"Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best."

Unknown, Source on sex
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"The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference."

Miller, Henry on heroes and heroism
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"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want?"

Freud, Sigmund on women
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