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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
