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- Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
- My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
- Mae West (1892 - 1980), Klondike Annie (1936 film)
- Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
- William Saroyan (1908 - 1981)
- Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
- If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
- What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
- Walter Pater (1839 - 1894), 1873
- Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
- I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.
- Terence (185 BC - 159 BC)
- Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.
- John Fletcher (1579 - 1625), 1647
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