O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.

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Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

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Life is pretty simple:

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

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Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

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Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same

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The greater the man's soul, the deeper he loves.

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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

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I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

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average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.

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The moment has no time.

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

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Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

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I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

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Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

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Learning never exhausts the mind.

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That which has no limitations, has no form.

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A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.

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Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.

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