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Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. (Oscar Wilde)
The highest degree of human wisdom is the ability to adapt to circumstances and remain calm despite external threats. View quote
Daniel Defoe
If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake. View quote
Confucius
Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little. View quote
Epicurus
Once a priest died from cancer in my arms-a man who himself comforted others his entire life. I asked him: ‘Which sin is the greatest?' and he answered: ‘The greatest sin is to offend the weak.' ‘Why?' ‘Because it's the easiest to do...' This thought struck me-the very heaviest sin is the easiest of all... Tell these words to the children... View quote
Elizaveta Glinka (Dr. Liza)
Some people do not hear what you say, while others hear what you think... View quote
One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts. View quote
C. S. Lewis
If you do good – don't tell anyone. If someone does good for you – tell everyone. That is what it means to be Human! View quote
A truly rich man is one whose children will run into his arms when his hands are empty. View quote
Тrue love and loyal friends are two of the hardest things to find. View quote
When you lie, you lie to God; when you steal, you steal from God; when you have hatred for someone, you have hatred for God; when you don't honor your parents, you don't honor God; when you are jealous, you are jealous of God; when you begrudge alms to the poor, you begrudge recompense to God; when you plot evil, you plot it against God; when you work evil, you work evil against God. (Nikolaj Velimirovic)
"What is love?" - a boy was asked. "Yesterday, I gave my jacket to a girl. She put it on, but it was me who felt warm!" - the boy replied. View quote
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. View quote
Charles Dickens
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. View quote
Winston Churchill
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. View quote
Confucius
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times. View quote
Voltaire
A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother. View quote
King Solomon
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. View quote
Aristotle
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. View quote
Plato
Disrespect for ancestors is the first sign of savagery and immorality. (Aleksandr Pushkin)
A strong person is not the one who defeats the weak, but the one who helps the weak become strong. View quote
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. View quote
Laozi
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. View quote
Bruce Lee
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. View quote
Confucius