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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

To understand a man, one must know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

— Albert Camus

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to his level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young, nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old.

— Epicurus

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

— Lao Tzu

He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.

— Seneca

Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalised his emotions.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

— George Bernard Shaw

Whoever in discussion adduces his authority uses not intellect but memory.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The devil is not as black as he is painted.

— Dante Alighieri

He has gained every point who has combined the useful with the pleasant.

— Horace

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Alexander Pope

He who does not know the road is likely to lose his way.

— African Proverb

He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.

— Chinese Proverb

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

— Voltaire

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

— Albert Camus

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

— William Shakespeare

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

— W. B. Yeats

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