"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."

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"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."

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"The unexamined life is not worth living."

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"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."

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"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true."

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"If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart."

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"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing."

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"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."

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"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

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"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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"The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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"A great man is always willing to be little."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Every man I meet is in some way my superior."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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