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“The hardest thing in life is a man to be honest with himself”
“True understanding lies beyond the desert”
“Know the laws before you break them”
“Experience is hard to acquire. Only the wise acquire it”
“True freedom is in not having a master, but in making the master your slave”
“It's not what we can do that makes us great, but what we can do but don't which make us great”
“If there is no reward, there is no reason to run”
“You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there”
“If you want an abscess to cure you must press it hard”
“The problem with satisfaction is it's a bottomless pit”
“If you think you can't, you're wrong and right”
“You can have some, but not all. Wanting to have it all is a sure recipe for disaster”
“The hardest thing is a man to truly know himself”
“Keeping hatred against someone is like helping him to torture you”
“Please others and you please yourself”
“It's always easy to conquer the hungry with a piece of bread. Only the wise can conquer the strong”
“Some people start to live when they die”
“Don't fear mistakes, they are your stepping stone to success”
“Visionaries will always meet opposition from weak minds but the seeds”
“Life is like water in a glass. Drop by drop the glass empties.”
“Nature has endowed us with some measure of insanity to cope with the realities of daily life”
“Life is a stampede to get to the top”
“Life becomes unbearable when, instead of living it, you stop to think about it.”
“Family is the only why of life”
“Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood”
“Somethings are simply better left the way they are.”
“Life is a war. Guerrilla warfare, the strategy”
“If you still have fear, you love life”
“Your true beliefs are known in agony”
“What's the use of life without health? It's like living dead”
“Life is so sweet. A man will even kiss the a** of his enemy to have his head spared”
“Life is existence with meaning”
“Sometimes the rope seems the only option when at the bottom of the pit. Climb it to safety.”
“Life is a dream. We wake up when we die”
“The road to your success is not a highway. You have to create it as you go”
“A guilty conscience has nowhere to hide”
“How to catch a crook? Ask him if he knows anybody strait.”
“Religion teaches us to fight against our natural instincts but it thrives on them”
“La guerre est un jeu de patience”