"If people have a passion for anything they tend to get quite good at it."
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"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes."
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"The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer."
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"People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise."
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"With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit."
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"the wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour."
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"Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease."
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"I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. Work begins when you don't like what you're doing. There's a wise saying: make your hobby your source of income. Then there's no such thing as work, and there's no such thing as getting tired. That's been my own experience. I did just what I wanted to do. It takes a little courage at first, because who the hell wants you to do just what you want to do; they've all got lots of plans for you. But you can make it happen."
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"He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love."
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"A wise man hears one word and understands two."
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"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
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"When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath."
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"He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy."
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"Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness."
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"There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid."
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"Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others."
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"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men."
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"An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself."
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"The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived."
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"Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you."
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