"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit."
-Baltasar Gracian
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"Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.“
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"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."
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"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose."
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"Respect yourself if you would have others respect you."
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"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
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