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“Its more than a simple belief that there is good and that it should fight the evil in the world. It's a personification of Light and Darkness at their most elemental level, as forces that are so ab...”
“Be first the master of yourself”
“the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes ...”
“There are two words that you should use frequently in your youth: ´sorry´ and ´thank-you´. Use the first one as often as possible, so that on your death bed all that you have to say to your friends...”
“To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.”
“Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.”
“Once a wolf, always a wolf.”
“Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.”
“Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one...”
“A great benefit of Sabbath keeping is that we learn to let God take care of us — not by becoming passive and lazy, but in the freedom of giving up our feeble attempts to be God in our own lives.”
“The slave is not afflicted with a punishment greater than the hardening of the heart and being distant from Allah. For the Fire was created to melt the hardened heart. The most distant heart from A...”
“A WORD TO THE WISELet the world pass in its time-ridden race; never get caught in its snare.Remember, the only acceptable casefor being in any particular place is having no business there.”
“Clear nights are sometimes the coldest.”
“Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today.Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction.See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.”
“When you love you give meaning to this world.”
“Fools, their wisdom weak,are their own enemiesas they go through life,doing evilthat bearsbitter fruit.”
“I am not a ‘wise man,’ nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but that I should be better than the wicked. It is enough for me if every day I redu...”
“Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation de...”
“The only way you would have failed," she said, "is if you had.”
“We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.”
