Bertrand Russell

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection.

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Knute Rockne

Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.

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Doris Wild Helmering

A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.

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Franz Kafka

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

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The Hitopadesa

On the touchstone of misfortune a man discovers the strength of understanding and of spirit in kinsmen, wife, servants, and himself.

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Victor Hugo

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

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David Eddings, King of the Murgos

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

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Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: Why is it so dark in here?

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

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Edward Gibbon

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

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Michel de Montaigne

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

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