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"Wise is the one who learns from another´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The fool keeps making the same mistakes again and again and never learns from them."
"I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works."
"I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong."
"No teacher, preacher, parent, friend, or wise man can decide what's right for you."
"If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood."
"I would be a liar if I said I don't care [about my appearance]; yes, I care. I found it very difficult, when I first became well known, to read criticism about how I look, how messy my hair was, and how generally unkempt I look. The nastiest thing ever written was written by a man, and I do remember that. I wasn't looking for it either, it was just simply in the newspaper I was reading."
"A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty."
"The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first."
"Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see."
"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it. And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. My heart tells me that he has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before the end; and when that comes, the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many - yours not least."
"Perhaps, it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would be written at all. It might be better to ask yourself "Why?" afterwards than before. Anyway, the force from somewhere in Space which commands you to write in the first place, gives you no choice. You take up the pen when you are told, and write what is commanded. There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you."
"Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth."
"A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order."
"The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him."
"Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would."
"To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine."
"The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm."
"The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper."
"If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs,follow that wise man ; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him."
"The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve."
