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You are never so rediculous for the skills you have but for those you pretend to have.
(La Rochefoucault)
Sometimes you have to do something crazy just to live normal for some time.
(Goethe)
Sincerety is probably the bravest kind of courage.
(William Somerset Maugham)
Drunkeness does not produce mistakes but uncovers them.
(From China)
Never neither arrogant nor discard yourself for nothing.
(Lavater)
There are moments in a mens life when it is wise not to be really wise.
(Friedrich Schiller)
Power does not depend from physical skills but from unbending will.
(Mahatma Ghandi)
A lie is like a snoball: The longer it runs, the bigger it becomes.
(Martin Luther)
Those who are hardhearted suffer from the most dangerous heart desease.
(Hope)
Who put others down beside himself is never great.
(Joahnn Gottfried Seume)
Treat others like wood: You would never throw it away just because a little part got a wormhole.
(From China)
Too much trust is often dumb but too much mistrust is always a disaster.
(Johann Nestroy)
These are the ones which are flat and sad: Never laughing women and never crying men.
(Paul Heyse)
It is better not only to know how to present but also how to receive and accept.
(Adrianne von Speyer)
We will not remain to be great if we do not continue to become better.
(Gottfried Keller)
Torturing other people makes so much sense than sculpturing one's own gravestone: It is the cemenation of the imputence to be a human.
(Wolperin)
The very clever ones can look around 5 corners - and straight ahead, they are blind.
(Benjamin Franklin)
Who makes himself too green will be eaten by goats.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
To articulate an apology is not a sign of humiliation but of maturation and sincerety.
(Norman Vincent Peale)
Heaven will never help those who do not want to react.
(Sophokles)
Who really learnt to control himself will not be keen to control others any more.
(Harry S. Haskins)
Most people are so much keen on having fun that they miss it entirely.
(Sören Kierkegaard)
If you want to know someone's character, give him power.
(Abraham Lincoln)
Who not to know how to hush does not know how to talk.
(Seneca)

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