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To care for wisdom and truth and improvement of the soul is far better than to seek money and honor and reputation. ——Socrates It is much better to focus on wisdom, truth, and the growth of the soul than to pursue money, honor, and fame. ——Socrates: Do not undertake what you cannot accomplish, but be careful to keep your promises. ——George Washington Do not take on tasks that you are unable to complete, but always fulfill your promises. ——George Washington: Do not sell virtue in exchange for wealth, nor liberty in exchange for power. ——Benjamin Franklin Do not trade virtue for wealth, nor use freedom to gain power. ——Benjamin Franklin: I would like to live to study, and not study to live. ——Francis Bacon I am willing to live for the sake of learning*, not to learn just in order to survive*. ——Bacon: A towering genius disdains a beaten path. He seeks regions hitherto unexplored. ——Abraham Lincoln A brilliant genius refuses to follow the paths taken by others. He searched for areas that had not yet been explored. —— Lincoln: Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below. ——John Dryden Errors are like straw floating on the surface of water ； To find pearls, one must dive beneath him. —— John Dryden: Physical exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. ——Plato Sports, if done under coercion, are not harmful to the body, but knowledge gained through coercion cannot be retained in the mind. —— Plato: From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings. ——Helen Hayes You learn love, laughter, and how to walk from your parents. But once you open the book, you’ll find that you have wings. ——Hayes: In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. ——William Osler In science, the merit belongs to those who manage to convince the whole world, rather than to those who first came up with such an idea. ——William Osler: Never buy what you do not want just because it is cheap; it will end up costing you a lot. ——Thomas Jefferson. Do not purchase things that are cheap but not necessary for you ； Because it is very expensive for you. ——Thomas Jefferson: Don’t gild the lily. ——Shakespeare. Don’t add unnecessary decorations to something that is already good. ——Shakespeare: I can live for two months on a good compliment. ——Mark Twain: A single word of praise is enough for me to live a fulfilling two months. ——Mark Twain: It is no use doing what you like; you have to like what you do. ——Winston Churchill: One should not choose a career just because they can do it; rather, one should choose a career that they enjoy. ——Churchill: There is no situation in life but has its advantages and pleasures, provided we will but take it as a joke when we find it. ——Washington Irving: Any situation in life has its advantages and pleasures, as long as we are willing to accept reality. ——Washington Irving: The beauty of the soul shines through when a man endures one heavy misfortune after another with composure, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of noble and heroic character. ——Aristotle. People manage to bear successive disasters with calmness, not because they are insensitive, but due to their noble and heroic qualities; and it is then that the beauty of the soul shines brightly, even in the face of misfortune. ——Aristotle: Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation on how it shall be spent. ——Samuel Johnson Life is short, and one should not spend too much time thinking about how to spend it. ——Samuel Johnson: Laziness is like a lock, which bolts you out of the storehouse of information and makes you an intellectual starveling. ——Bernard Shaw Laziness is like a lock that prevents access to the repository of knowledge, resulting in a lack of intellectual development. ——George Bernard Shaw: Always bear in mind that: your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing. ——Abraham Lincoln. Always remember: your own determination to succeed is more important than anything else. ——Lincoln Joy is our wings; sorrow is our spur. ——Richter Happiness is our wings, while pain is our driving force. ——Richter: It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. ——Isaac Asimov. If we face difficulties bravely, they will disappear; that has always been my philosophy in life. ——Isaac Asimov Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. ——Henry Ford Being prepared is the key to success. ——Henry Ford: Genius is formed in quietness, character in the flow of life. ——Goethe Genius emerges in tranquility, while personality is shaped by the currents of life. ——Goethe Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. ——Robert Frost Education aims to equip people with the ability to hear anything without becoming angry or losing confidence. ——Robert Frost: Everyone has two kinds of education – one that they receive from others, and another, more important one, that they give to themselves. ——E Gibbon Everyone receives two types of education; one comes from others, while the other, which is even more important, comes from oneself. ——Gippon The most important lesson you can learn from winning is that you can. ——Dave Weinbaum The most important thing you can gain from winning is the realization that you are capable of winning. ——Dave Winbaum: Absence to love is what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small; it inflames the great. ——Roger de Bussy-Rabutin. Separation, in relation to love, is like wind to fire: it can put out small fires and make large ones burn more fiercely. ——Bisi Rabidan R. A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. ——Joseph Addison Contentment is the greatest fortune one can have in life. ——Edison: If you want to know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. ——Benjamin Franklin: If you want to understand what money is worth, try borrowing some money. ——Franklin: If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your guide, prudence as your brother, and hope as your sentinel. ——Thomas Edison: If you want to be successful, make perseverance your friend, experience your advisor, caution your companion, and hope your watchful eye. ——Edison Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is through health that money is acquired. ——Samuel Johnson Health is certainly more important than money, as it is health that enables us to earn money. ——Samuel Johnson: That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. ——Henry David Thoreau: The person who can find happiness in everything is the richest of all. ——David Thoreau. 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