A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. Leo Tolstoy

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What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.

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Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness

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It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

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The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

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Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.

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Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

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If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.

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