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A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

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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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A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

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A great mind becomes a great fortune.

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There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

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I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

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See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

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Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

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It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

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A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.

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The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

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The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

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I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

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Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

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Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

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The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

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While we are postponing, life speeds by.

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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

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What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

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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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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

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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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Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

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Do everything as in the eye of another.

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No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

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