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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not pleas

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink. – Sophocles

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The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you dont just read about it you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it. – Hugh Jackman

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom. – Aeschylus

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The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. – Josh Billings

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