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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

PlatoAttributed (source uncertain)

Know thyself.

SocratesDelphic maxim (Temple of Apollo at Delphi)

The unexamined life is not worth living.

SocratesPlato's Apology (38a)

I know that I know nothing.

SocratesPlato's Apology

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Lao TzuTao Te Ching

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

Lao TzuTao Te Ching, Chapter 33

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Lao TzuTao Te Ching, Chapter 64

Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself.

ConfuciusThe Analects

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

ConfuciusAttributed to Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

ConfuciusThe Analects

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

Sun TzuThe Art of War

All warfare is based on deception.

Sun TzuThe Art of War

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

Sun TzuThe Art of War

Where you tend a rose, my lad, / A thistle cannot grow.

Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Secret Garden

tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet

L. M. MontgomeryAnne of Green Gables

'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.

Alfred TennysonIn Memoriam A.H.H.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.

William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's Dream

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Jane AustenEmma

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.

John KeatsEndymion

Come forth into the light of things.

William WordsworthThe Tables Turned

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