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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.

Heraclitus

Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day.
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Bright Inspirational Light Principle Thinking
We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
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Achievement Children Ourselves Play Serious
Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.
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Act Consist Speak Truth Wisdom
Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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Inspirational Late One Liner Seek World
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
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Character Creation Life Patient
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
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Alcohol Evening Ignorance Reveal Wine
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
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Alcohol Hard Hide Ignorance Relax Wine
Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.
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Army Battle Fighter Lucky Men Target Warrior
Dog bark at what they don’t understand.
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Bark Dog Insult Stupidity Understand
You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul.
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Boundary Death Life Soul Travel
There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.
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exchange Fire Gold Wave
A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
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Connection Hide Life Relationship
Those who love wisdom must investigate many things.
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Investigation Love Wisdom
Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and earth in the death of water.
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Air Death Earth Fire Live Philosophy Water
And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
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Awake Forget Ignorance Men
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
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Death Life Name Reality

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