The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
Lucretius
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
Lucretius
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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.
John Morley
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Honore de Balzac
A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
Lord Chesterfield
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Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.
Thomas Sowell
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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
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Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.
William Osler
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Erica Jong
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I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.
Johann von Goethe
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It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.
Proverb
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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.
Abraham Lincoln
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If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
Norman Mailer
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
Gene Fowler
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A No uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a Yes merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Mahatma Gandhi
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You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.
Source Unknown
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Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
Jean Paul
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
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If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
Kurt Lewin
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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
Harry Belafonte
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The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
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Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
Lee Iacocca
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There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
Billy Graham
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