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Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.

Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see a lot of people doing it.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

A wise man is never to sure of what he knows to be true.

Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.

You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others.

It's so simple to be happy, but so difficult to be simple.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.