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The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no actions.

When wealth goes only happiness goes, when health goes even the hope goes.

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Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage.

Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.

The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.

Don't always use prudence for precaution, sometimes use it for progress.

Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.

For I have nothing to lean on, nowhere to call my home and there is nowhere I will go for Christmas to rest my head and touch familiar walls. I have no degree to show on paper or employment to take care of my health or the reassurance that I can pay my rent. And I have no right to complain because this is the road I choose and I built it myself, not really knowing where I wanted it to lead, but I have hope in all things ahead and behind and I am learning to let myself go. Forget my own ego and believe that what I am doing is grander than my very own self.

How do I know what I think until I see what I say?

A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.

Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.

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Texting is not talking and a phone is not a friend.

If your prudence stops you every time from taking an action, then you are no more prudent, you are frightened.

The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.

Passion makes you good, but pride stops you to get better.

Everything around me affirmed there was nothing else I could do – yet everything inside me cried that I was not doing enough.

Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.

After all, this was the place where I’d had my first meaningful conversation with a female, it was the site of a football’s first encounter with my groin, and above all, it was the location where I was first punched in the face by a bully. Somewhere out there, a tooth of mine lay deep within the soil.

Music is the fastest motivator in the world.

And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.

Hunger gives flavour to the food.

A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.

If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.

Routine ruins the life, variety vitalise the life.

Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.

Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.

During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.

L'honneste est stable et permanent.

Some men do not know the father of 'their' children.

Il n'est rien qui tente mes larmes que les larmes.

Some women have been faking orgasms for so long that they sometimes fake one when they are masturbating.

War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.

Faster is fatal, slower is safe.

On the levels of politics and theology, beauty is perfectly compatible with nonsense and tyranny. Which is very fortunate; for if beauty were incompatible with non­sense and tyranny, there would be precious little art in the world. The masterpieces of painting, sculpture and architecture were produced as religious or political propaganda, for the greater glory of a god, a govern­ment or a priesthood. But most kings and priests have been despotic and all religions have been riddled with superstition. Genius has been the servant of tyranny and art has advertised the merits of the local cult. Time, as it passes, separates the good art from the bad meta­physics. Can we learn to make this separation, not after the event, but while it is actually taking place? That is the question.

Words are better than weapons, wisdom is better than war.

An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.

You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.

Of course, even before Flaubert, people knew stupidity existed, but they understood it somewhat differently: it was considered a simple absence of knowledge, a defect correctable by education. In Flaubert's novels, stupidity is an inseparable dimension of human existence. It accompanies poor Emma throughout her days, to her bed of love and to her deathbed, over which two deadly agélastes, Homais and Bournisien, go on endlessly trading their inanities like a kind of funeral oration. But the most shocking, the most scandalous thing about Flaubert's vision of stupidity is this: Stupidity does not give way to science, technology, modernity, progress; on the contrary, it progresses right along with progress!

Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this.

Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.

Know then thyself; presume not God to scan,The proper study of mankind is Man.Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,A being darkly wise and rudely great:With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,And too much weakness for the Stoic's pride,He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest;In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast;In doubt his mind or body to prefer;Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err.Alike in ignorance, his reason such,Whether he thinks too little or too much.

In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love.

Que les poètes morts laissent la place aux autres. Et nous pourrions tout de même voir que c'est notre vénération devant ce qui a été déjà fait, si beau et si valable que ce soit, qui nous pétrifie, qui nous stabilise et nous empêche de prendre contact avec la force qui est dessous, que l'on appelle l'énergie pensante, la force vitale, le déterminisme des échanges, les menstrues de la lune ou tout ce qu'on voudra.

Don't compare the size of your roof with the size of the sky.

Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.

It's time to shop high heels if your fiance kisses you on the forehead.

Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home.

One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any knowledge of number. How must he have felt, then, to see crowds of people mingling in the streets? Before that day he would not have believed that so many people existed in all the world. And what wonder it must have been to discover flocks of birds, and piles of stones, leaves on trees and blades of grass! To suddenly realise that, his whole life long, he had been kept at arm’s length from multiplicity.

With right fashion, every female would be a flame.

....And above all, it is your civilization, it is you. However much you hate it or laugh at it, you will never be happy away from it for any length of time

Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation.

No peace is possible between the novelist and the agélaste [those who do not laugh]. Never having heard God's laughter, the agélastes are convinced that the truth is obvious, that all men necessarily think the same thing, and that they themselves are exactly what they think they are. But it is precisely in losing the certainty of truth and the unanimous agreement of others that man becomes an individual. The novel is the imaginary paradise of individuals. It is the territory where no one possesses the truth, neither Anna nor Karenin, but where everyone has the right to be understood, both Anna and Karenin.

Before you worry about the beauty of your body, worry about the health of your body.

On less lucid evenings, every library is a haunted cemetery.

Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.

A professional who doesn't deliver as committed is not just lazy, he is a liar.

For few matters you need to be solo, for some matters you need soul mate and for many matters you need society,

Writing and other efforts to produce an enduring piece of artwork is a gallant response to the prospect of death. Every person knows that they must die, and consequently people build elaborate symbolic defenses mechanism to shield themselves from knowledge of their impermanence. Every person possesses autonomy of the will, the ability to choose how to conduct their life. The freedom to act towards objects is ultimately useless; it provides a person with no sense of meaning and supplies no purpose to life because a mere collection of objects will not transcend their physical demise. An artist does not deny their impermanence but embraces the prospect of their death by laboring to create a monument of their existence that will survive their expiry.