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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

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The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

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He that does good to another does good also to himself.

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

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Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

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Modesty forbids what the law does not.

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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

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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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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

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If you judge, investigate.

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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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In war there is no prize for runner-up.

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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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The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

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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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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

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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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The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

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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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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 is brave is free.

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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

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Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

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A great fortune is a great slavery.

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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

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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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