“We have achieved political freedom but our revolution is not yet complete and is still in progress, for political freedom without the assurance of the right to live and to pursue…”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.”

— Confucius

“That which is most excellent, and is most to be desired by all happy, honest and healthy-minded men, is dignified leisure.”

— Cicero

“The consciousness of life is higher than life, the knowledge of the laws of happiness is higher than happiness.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Knowledge is not happiness, and science but an exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.”

— Lord Byron

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”

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