150+ Ancient Wisdom Quotes Every Person Should Know

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

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Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice,and death as the other.What you put in-between the slices is up to you.Is your sandwich tasty or sour?Allan Rufus.org

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Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

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Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable

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For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge the more grief.

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I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

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I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

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Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.

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How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

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Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

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Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

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Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

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They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

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There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

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Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.

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I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see.

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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

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for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea

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Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

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Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

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Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them.

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