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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Confidence Man Marriage Sex Virgin
Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Action Inspirational One Liner Patience Pleasure Price
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Knowledge Philosophy Teaching Thinking
Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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Answer Average Experience Individual Intelligence People Stupidity
To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Ourself
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Average Discuss Ideas Judgement Mind People Strong
If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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Forever Greedy Human Nature Suffering
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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Improvement Inspirational Labor Men Time Writing Yourself
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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Contentment Depart Equality Misfortune
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Decide Deliver Enable Inspirational Instinct Poet Poetry Wisdom
The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Be Yourself Greatness Honour Live Pretend
There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Evil Greatness Hate Reason Suffering
Be as you wish to seem.
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Attitude Be Yourself One Liner Self Love
I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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Comfortable Enjoyment Life Peace
If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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Goodness Inspirational Saddle Struggle Tame
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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Life Ourself Realize Understand Wisdom World

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

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