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  • #1
    Confucius
    “Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.”
    Confucius, The Analects

  • #2
    Confucius
    “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
    Confucius, Confucius: The Analects

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #5
    Dr. Seuss
    “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #6
    Bertrand Russell
    “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #7
    Albert Camus
    “In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

    [The Minotaur]”
    Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

  • #8
    Seneca
    “Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

  • #9
    Confucius
    “We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.”
    Confucius

  • #10
    Confucius
    “The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.”
    Confucius

  • #11
    Confucius
    “Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.”
    Confucius

  • #12
    Confucius
    “Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”
    Confucius

  • #13
    Confucius
    “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
    Confucius

  • #14
    Confucius
    “Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.”
    Confucius

  • #15
    Lao Tzu
    “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #20
    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #22
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

  • #23
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

  • #24
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot



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