It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learn how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!

Friedrich Nietzsche

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There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words. Fools consider pieces of rocks as gems.

Chanakya

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Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.

Confucius

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A man of wisdom delights in water.

Confucius

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He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.

Leonardo da Vinci

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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Mark Twain

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