Panin Quotes

#1. Solve the problem of life? Live, and you solve it.

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#2. The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.

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#3. Foe every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.For every love there is a heart somewhere to recieve it.

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#4. The best excuse is to have none.

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#5. Hast thou fallen? Do not groan and lament: rather be thankful for the opportunity given thee to rise once more.

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#6. Men's eyes are in their heads; women's, in their hearts.

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#7. Let not adversity oppress thee: be rather like unto the nail; the farther 'tis hammered, the firmer it holds.

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#8. It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning.

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#9. What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.

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#10. For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure; but it cures as the guillotine cures headache.

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#11. Whether I shall be unfortunate depends also on others; whether I shall be unhappy depends only on myself.

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#12. Love is not like the echo, which returneth only what is given; but, rather, like the pump, which returneth by the pail what it received by the pint.

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#13. As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife.

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#14. However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.

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#15. Experience, if we only learn by it, is cheap at any price.

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#16. If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!

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#17. How adversity doth ope the eye! A moon can be seen by day as well as by night; but, to see the stars, you must be in darkness.

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#18. As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.

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#19. The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.

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#20. As long as I fear my weakness, I am stronger than when I trust my strength.

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#21. The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived.

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#22. The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.

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#23. The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head.

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#24. From the moment we expect gratitude, we forfeit it.

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#25. Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.

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#26. It may be true that love is blind, but only for what is ugly: its sight is keen enough for what is beautiful.

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#27. Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most.

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#28. The best life is that which makes the best of life.

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#29. A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.

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#30. Men are willing to admit that they are sinners, but not that they are sinning.

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#31. To go through life without love is to travel through the world in a carriage with closed windows.

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#32. Though my sight be lost, I do not yet lose my faith: when I can no longer see, I can still believe.

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#33. Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.

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#34. Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.

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#35. As the paper though it entereth the press white, yet when it cometh forth black is eagerly sought to be perused; so do thou let thy life, though darkened by adversity, be made all the more useful to thy fellows.

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