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You should not honor men more than truth.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

You're my Star, a stargazer too,and I wish that I were Heaven,with a billion eyes to look at you!

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

Never lose faith in yourself, and never lose hope; remember, even when this world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still always hope.

When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.

The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today.

You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.

He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.

My experiences have taught me that things rarely improve with a simple change of scenery.

No. Don't give up hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.