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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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Die Except God Hour
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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Adversity Depression Human Prosperity Remember Stable
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Knowledge One Liner True Wisdom
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Knowledge Wealth
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
An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Consider Inspirational Life Live One Liner Worth
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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Alone Beast God Healing Himself Self Love Society Sufficient
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 find yourself, think for yourself.
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Finding Freedom Healing Self Love Yourself
One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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Forgiveness Insult Man Respect Return Treat Wrong
Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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Alter Change Death Freedom Law Life Mind Obligation Pain Pretend Reality Trouble
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
The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Evil Include Language Misuse One Liner Soul
Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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Ashamed Care Fame Improvement Money Prestige Soul Truth Wisdom
It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Persist
Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Deep Inspirational Knowledge Success

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

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