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What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
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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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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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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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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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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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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
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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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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
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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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No man was ever wise by chance.
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Do everything as in the eye of another.
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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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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A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.
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Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
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Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
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A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.