What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Great short quote and quotation by: Oscar Wilde , Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
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What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. Great short quote and quotation by: Epictetus, Discourses , Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD – 135 AD)
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Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash…Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be. […]
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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, […]
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Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. Great short quote and quotation by: Nathaniel Hawthorne , US author (1804 – 1864)
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