"If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve."

Wisdom, Change, Dying, Nothing, Will

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"If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve."

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"The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest."

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"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar."

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"Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens."

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"In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it."

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"Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself."

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"When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves.""

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"To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect."

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"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

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"How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?"

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"The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be."

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"Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering."

Theodore Roosevelt, American President

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"In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value."

Louis L'Amour, American Author

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"Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough."

Fran Lebowitz, American Journalist

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"To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

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"Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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