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Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.
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Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.
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It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.
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It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.
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It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.
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A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.
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True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.
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Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.
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No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
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