"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get."
-Confucius
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"Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.“
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"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
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"Heaven means to be one with God."
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"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
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"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
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"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
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