Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

Thereare two sides to every question.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.