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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Virtue is nothing else than right reason
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Teach the art of living well.
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The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
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You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult
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Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?
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Everything hangs on one's thinking.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
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No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
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The miserable are sacred.
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Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
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The anger of those in authority is always weighty.
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It is opportunity that makes the thief.
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I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.
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