If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

Leo Tolstoy

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Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Short-term thinking makes people desperate, ungenerous, impulsive. Long-term thinking makes people calm, gracious, controlled. The mighty pyramids and cathedrals were built by civilizations with a long time horizon, so it is with the life of a great man.

The Stoic Emperor

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

The universe doesn't allow perfection.

Stephen Hawking

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