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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
Related topics: Wisdom
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
The invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side
which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
- Mark Twain
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm,
but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
There is a sacredness in tears.
They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.
They are messengers of overwhelming grief ...
and unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth.
The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
- Mark Twain
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
I do not fear death.
I had been dead for billions and billions
of years before I was born,
and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
- Mark Twain
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
Anger is an acid that can do more harm
to the vessel in which it is stored
than to anything on which it is poured.
- Mark Twain
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world.
I know because I've done it thousands of times.
- Mark Twain
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear,
and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
We are strange beings, we seem
to go free, but we go in chains -
chains of training, custom, convention,
association, environment -
in a word, Circumstance -
and against these bonds
the strongest of us struggle in vain.
- Mark Twain
A lie travels round the world while
truth is putting her boots on.
- French Proverb
(also attributed to Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and others)
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
Comedy keeps the heart sweet.
- Mark Twain
The proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong.
Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain
Never try to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
- Mark Twain
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
- Mark Twain
Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
Let your sympathies and your compassion
be always with the under dog in the fight -
this is magnanimity;
but bet on the other one - this is business.
- Mark Twain
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
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