"There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends."

Homer on marriage
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"I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another."

Homer on lies and lying   

"A guest never forgets the host who had treated him kindly."

Homer on guests   

"Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired."

Homer on friends and friendship
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"Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe."

Homer on empathy
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"Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this."

Homer on adversity
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"Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other."

Cervantes, Miguel De on death   

"He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all."

Cervantes, Miguel De on courage
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"To be prepared is half the victory."

Cervantes, Miguel De on planning   

"One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous."

Cervantes, Miguel De on love
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"The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise."

Cervantes, Miguel De on hope
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"A person dishonored is worst than dead."

Cervantes, Miguel De on honor
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"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn."

Cervantes, Miguel De on aid and assistance
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"There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair."

Cervantes, Miguel De on doubt   

"Conceit is incompatible with understanding."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on conceit
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"Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality."

Herbert, Frank on truth   

"One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on."

Simmons, Jake on knowledge
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"This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise."

Dante Alighieri on middle class
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"Nature is the art of God."

Dante Alighieri on nature
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"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."

Dante Alighieri on memory
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"Follow your own star!"

Dante Alighieri on individuality
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"Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction."

Dante Alighieri on fame
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"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."

Dalai Lama on teacher   

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them."

Dalai Lama on service
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"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

Dalai Lama on happiness
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"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

Dalai Lama on happiness
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"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day."

Dalai Lama on friends and friendship
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"Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end."

Malory, Sir Thomas on love   

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"Teach only love for that is what you are."

A Course In Miracles on love
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"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons."

Aristotle on virtue
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"I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on travel   

"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving."

Francis De Sales, St. on action
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"A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence."

Dante Alighieri on action   

"A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark."

Dante Alighieri on things and little things
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"Will cannot be quenched against its will."

Dante Alighieri on power   

"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty."

Herbert, Frank on freedom   

"Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity."

Milton, John on death
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"Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows."

Milton, John on communication   

"Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul."

Milton, John on wives   

"Virtue that wavers is not virtue."

Milton, John on virtue
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