Jorge Luis Borges

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

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Serbian Proverb

Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.

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Confucius, The Confucian Analects

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

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Geronimo

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures...

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Stanislaw Lec

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.

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Emerson Pugh

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.

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Thomas a Kempis

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

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Anthony Trollope

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

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Edward R. Murrow

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. ... With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

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William Least Heat Moon

There are two kinds of adventurers those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.

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Charles Caleb Colton

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

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