There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.

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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

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Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.

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One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

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I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.

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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.

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