There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
-Francis Bacon
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I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.
-Robert Brault
Success is the result of foresight and resolution; foresight depends upon deep thinking and planning to keep your secrets to yourself.
-Scriptures
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
-Charles Edward Montague
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
