“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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“But I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.”

― Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany

“For a fit of laughter which has been indulged to excess almost always produces a violent reaction.”

― Plato, The Republic

“If anything, I wanted to understand things and then be free of them.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

“Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.”

― Stephen King, The Stand

“A woman is a full-time job. You have to choose your profession.”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition laws. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

“After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”

― John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address

“As long as this exists . . . this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“True, there never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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