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I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings always darker, emptier and simpler.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it, not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it, hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

The superior man understands what is right, the inferior man understands what will sell.

The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Wisdom is scar tissue in disguise.

To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.