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“Wisdom is wasted on the old, and youth is wasted on the young.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“We have two ears and one mouth, therefore we should listen twice as much as we speak.”
― Zeno

“The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.”
― William Ralph Inge

“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods