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If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality. - Author object (361)

Know thyself. - Author object (361)

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. - Author object (361)

Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers. - Author object (361)

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. - Author object (361)

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. - Author object (361)

Every action has its pleasures and its price. - Author object (361)

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. - Author object (361)

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others. - Author object (361)

Let him who would move the world first move himself. - Author object (361)

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. - Author object (361)

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual - Author object (361)

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better. - Author object (361)

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser. - Author object (361)

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. - Author object (361)

Envy is the ulcer of the soul. - Author object (361)

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. - Author object (361)

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. - Author object (361)

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people. - Author object (361)

If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all. - Author object (361)