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| ~CONFUCIUS~ *Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. *Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. *I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. *Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star. *Respect yourself and others will respect you. *Study the past if you would define the future. *To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle. *What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others. *When anger rises, think of the consequences. *The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters. *The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. *Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame. *Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue. *When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. ~OSCAR WILDE~ *Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. *I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. *Illusion is the first of all pleasures. *Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. *The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself. *Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. *Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. *It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. *Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. *We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. *The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. *Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. *The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. *There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. |
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