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A great mind becomes a great fortune.
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In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
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Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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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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Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
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To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
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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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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
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A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
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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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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
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If you judge, investigate.
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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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