If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.
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I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
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Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.
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Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.
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