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See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
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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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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
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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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Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
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The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
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It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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No man was ever wise by chance.
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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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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
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I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
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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 man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
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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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No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
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God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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