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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

— George Bernard Shaw

The world loves a spice of wickedness.

— Emily Dickinson

If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry.

— Dalai Lama

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

— Socrates

From one learn all.

— Virgil

To be or not to be, that is the question.

— William Shakespeare

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.

— Lewis Carroll

Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

— Plato

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

— Robert Frost

Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.

— Heraclitus

The unexamined life is not worth living.

— Socrates

The medicine increases the pain.

— Virgil

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

— Alexander Pope

The devil is not as black as he is painted.

— Dante Alighieri

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.

— Rumi

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

— Seneca

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

— Victor Hugo

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

— Bertrand Russell

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

— Plato

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

— Bertrand Russell

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their mentality.

— Epicurus

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

— Socrates

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

— Benjamin Franklin

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