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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.   
(Mahatma Gandhi)

Don’t give your advice before you are called upon.   
(Desiderius Erasmus)

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.   
(Galileo Galilei)

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.   
(Victor Hugo)

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.   
(Rene Descartes)

We are not limited by our old age; we are liberated by it.   
(Stu Mittleman)

The strongest man on the earth is the one who stands most alone.   
(Henrik Ibsen)

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.   
(Buddha)

Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.   
(The Bible)

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.   
(Benjamin Franklin)

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.   
(Henry L. Mencken)

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.   
(Thomas H. Huxley)

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.   
(Mahatma Gandhie)

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The great thing in life is to keep your mind young.   
(Henry Ford)

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.   
(Mother Teresa)

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.   
(Aldous L. Huxley)

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.   
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world.   
(Albert Einstein)

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door
that we do not see the one which has opened for us.   
(Alexander Graham Bell)

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.   
(Jean Jacques Rousseau)

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.    
(Niels Bohr)

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.   
(Peter Drucker)

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.   
(Oliver Goldsmith)

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.   
(Mother Teresa)

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.   
(Thomas A. Edison)

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.   
(Georg W. Friedrich Hegel)

The great pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.   
(Charles Lamb)

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.   
(Dennis Roch)

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts.   
(Bertrand Russell)

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.   
(George Oewell)

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice, it is not a thing to be waited for,it is a thing to be achieved.  
(William J. Bryan)

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.   
(Galileo Galilei)

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.   
(Herodotus)

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.   
(Mark Twain)

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.   
(Pablo Picasso)

He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.   
(Jean Jacques Rousseau)

Never to repent and never to reproach others; these are the first step of wisdom.   
(Denis Diderot)

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.  
(Oscar Wilde)

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.   
(Dale Carnegie)

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.   
(Booker T. Washington)

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.   
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.   
(William Shakespeare)

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation.
A politician is a statesman who places the nation as his service.   
(Georges Pompidou)

Adversity is the first path to truth.   
(George G. Byron)

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.  
 (Colin Powell)

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.   
(Anne Landers)

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.   
(William Saroyan)

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.   
(Albert Einstein)

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what essential is invisible to the eye.   
(Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.   
(Anne M. Lindbergh)

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.  
(John Quincy Adams)

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.   
(Terry Wogan)

‘Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.   
(Abraham Lincoln)

Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value.   
(Albert Einstein)

I shut my eyes in order to see.   
(Paul Gauguin)

If you don’t learn to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you’re old.   
(Edgar W. Howe)

An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.   
(Arabic proverb)

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.   
(Mary W. Montagu)

The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.   
(William Feather)

Be the changes you wish to see in other people.   
(Mahatma Candhi)

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.   
(Mao Zedong)
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   A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.  明日の百より、今日の50. 手の中の鳥は、藪の中の2羽に値する
   A friend in need is a frient indeed.  困ったときの友はこそ真の友
   A stich in time saves nine.  早めの一針は、9針の手間を省く
   All is not gold that glitters.  光るものは必ずしも金ならず
   All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.  良く学び、良く遊べ
     
   Birds of a feather flock together.  同じ羽根の鳥は、群れ集まる。 類は友を呼ぶ
   Good medicine tastes bitter to the mouth.  良薬は口に苦し
   Heaven helps those who helps themselves.  天は自ら助けるものを助ける
   It is no use crying over spilt milk.  覆水盆に返らず
   Look before you leap.  転ばぬ先の杖。跳ぶ前に見よ。
     
   Make hay while the sun shines.  好機逸するべからず。  日の照るうちに干草をつくれ
   Necessity is the mother of invention.  必要は、発明の母である
   Out of sight , out of mind.  去る者は日々に疎し
   Rome was not built in a day.  ローマは一日にしてならず
   Slow and steady wins the race.  急いては事を仕損ずる
     
   Strike the iron while it is hot.  鉄は熱い内に打て
   The early bird catches the worm.  早起きの鳥は虫を捉える。  早起きは3文の得
   There is no accounting for taste.  蓼食う虫もいろいろ
   There is no place like home.  我が家にまさるところなし
   There lives more faith in honest doubt than in half the creeds.  中途半端に信ずるより正直な疑問の方が、誠意がある
     
   Time and tide waits for no one.  歳月人を待たず
   Too many cooks spoil the broth.  料理人が多すぎると、肉汁がだめになる。  船頭多くして舟丘に登る
   What cannot be cured must be endured.  治せないものは、我慢しなければならない
   When in Rome , do as the Romas do.  郷に入りては、郷に従え
   Where there is the will , there is a way.  精神一到何事がならざらん。  意思あるところに道がある

  
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