Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

Benjamin Franklin

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The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action.

Herbert Spencer

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles - on her own nose all the time.

Perhaps someday I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

People think it would be nice to have peace of mind, to be serene, to be calm, to be undisturbed by this, that, and the other. But as long as you make all those things objects of desire, you have defined yourself as lacking them.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness.

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