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Oct 14, 2005 02:30

Sweet! You can get free engravings and I'm looking through quotes some great ones are:

"Nothing can have value without being an object of utility."
"Religion is the opium of the masses."
"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."
-Karl Marx

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."
"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses."
"And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
"Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!"
"Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders."
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had."
"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."
"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."
"Fear is the mother of morality."
"Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual."
"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself."
-Plutarch

"He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know."
"Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy."
"Silence is a source of great strength."
"When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!'"
"To see things in the seed, that is genius."
"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders."
-Lao Tzu

"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."
"If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation."
-Chuang Tzu

"Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous."
"We live, not as we wish to, but as we can."
-Mencius

"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without."
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
"It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop."
"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
"The object of the superior man is truth."
"To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice."
-Confucius

"An honest man is always a child."
"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."
"Wisdom begins in wonder."
-Socrates
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