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#1

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom

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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.”
― Socrates

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#3

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

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#4

“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
― Socrates

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#5

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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#6

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

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#7

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

tags: identity, opinions

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#8

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: friends-betrayal

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#9

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom

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#10

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: education-knowledge

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#11

“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: disappointment, dorian-gray, marriage, men, relationships, women

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#12

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: fashion

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#13

“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: agree

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#14

“No good deed goes unpunished.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor

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#15

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
― Oscar Wilde, Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man

tags: epigram, paradox, truth, wisdom

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#16

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being”
― Oscar Wilde

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#17

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose

tags: curiosity, epigram, tabloid-journalism, wisdom

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#18

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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#19

“The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: apothegm, benevolence, epigram, reputation

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#20

“Of all things, I liked books best.”
― Nikola Tesla

tags: books

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#21

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
― Nikola Tesla

tags: invention, non-physical-phenomena, progress, science

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#22

“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”
― Nikola Tesla

tags: future, present

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#23

“If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.”
― Nikola Tesla

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#24

“I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.”
― Nikola Tesla

tags: inventions, marriage, nikola-tesla, passion

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#25

“Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine”
― Nikola Tesla

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#26

“What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.”
― Nikola Tesla

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#27

“We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences”
― Nikola Tesla, My Inventions

tags: inspirational, psychological

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#28

“Inventors don't have time for married life.”
― Nikola Tesla

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#29

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational

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#30

“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
― Rumi

tags: language, power-of-words, remaining-silent

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