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It's a dangerous thing when you have love without faith and trust... No one wants to feel unsure when they give their heart away.

I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.

If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think