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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Life, Words Of Wisdom, Tools

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

Fall, Falling Down, Fallen

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

Motivational, Happiness, Freedom

"Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives". Book by Dan Millman, p. 162, 2006.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

Ignorance, Awareness

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

Want, Mass, Ifs

In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine.

Shining, Sun, Persons

Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant

Running, Truth, Ignorance

Socrates, Gordon Jacobs (2017). “Socrates: 100 Quotes on Life, Free Will, and Virtue”, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Inspirational, Wisdom, Philosophy

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.

Excellence, Habit

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Funny, Spiritual, Intelligent

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.

Life, Letting Go, Perspective

To find yourself, think for yourself.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.

Air, Secret, Want

Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher

Good Woman, Rest Of Your Life, Philosopher

Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.

Writing, Men, Difficulty

The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.

Real, Danger In Life, Evil

Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.

Lying, Murder

Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.

Profound, Silence, Noise

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

In Plato 'Apology' 38a

Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.

Grieving, Self, Acting

Understanding a question is half an answer.

Understanding, Answers, Half

Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.

Want, Weeping

Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.

Thinking, People, Want

It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.

Courage, Mistake, Spirit

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