No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.
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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
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Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others.
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No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
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He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
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Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
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The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
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The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
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There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
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There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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All art is an imitation of nature.
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We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
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It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
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A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
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Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
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He has committed the crime who profits by it.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
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The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.
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Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.
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No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
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The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?
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Do everything as in the eye of another.
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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
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The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
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Where the fear is, happiness is not.
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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
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He who is brave is free.
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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
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It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.
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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
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The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.
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If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.
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If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
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For greed all nature is too little.
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The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.
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Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
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Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
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It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
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In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.
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If you would judge, understand.
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If you judge, investigate.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness
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The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.
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He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
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A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
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The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
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Life is warfare.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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If you wish to be loved; Love!
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Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
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What once were vices are manners now.
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Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
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The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
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That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.
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It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
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Modesty forbids what the law does not.
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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
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If you live according to the dictates of nature, you will never be poor; if according to the notions of man, you will never be rich.
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Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
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That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
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Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.
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Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.
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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
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Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
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There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
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We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
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Every guilty person is his own hangman.
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There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
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To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
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The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
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Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.
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There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude -- confidence in self.
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Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
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If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
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You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
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It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
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A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
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Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
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When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
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Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.
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Time discovered truth.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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What is true belongs to me!
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What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
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The sun also shines on the wicked.
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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
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