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Insights on Life and Human Nature

The document presents a collection of philosophical quotes and insights, emphasizing themes such as kindness, the nature of knowledge, the importance of education, and the complexities of human existence. It reflects on the duality of human nature, the pursuit of wisdom, and the significance of self-awareness and personal growth. Overall, it encourages a deeper understanding of life, morality, and the human condition.

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Insights on Life and Human Nature

The document presents a collection of philosophical quotes and insights, emphasizing themes such as kindness, the nature of knowledge, the importance of education, and the complexities of human existence. It reflects on the duality of human nature, the pursuit of wisdom, and the significance of self-awareness and personal growth. Overall, it encourages a deeper understanding of life, morality, and the human condition.

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1. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

2. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid
of the light.

3. Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds,
so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each

4. According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head
with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend
their lives in search of their other halves.

5. I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

6. Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow

7. One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your
inferiors.

8.good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around
the laws

9. Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.

10. Education is teaching our children to desire the right things

11. The beginning is the most important part of the work.

12. How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or
whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

13. The greatest wealth is to live content with little

14. Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder


15. Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries
to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

16. A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one
might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

17. Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?

18. The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in
terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no
wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age

19. To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the
worst and most ignoble defeat.

20. Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of
discontent.

21. No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the
light, the darker that shadow becomes.

22. Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand,
excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.

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