"Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else."
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"Larger sums may be an advantage at some cases and a disadvantage at others."
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"Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough."
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"He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility."
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"Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense."
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"The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily."
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"We all, at some point, grow old and acquire other qualities, and these can always be turned to good advantage."
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"Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead."
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"Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'."
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"One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him."
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"I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true."
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"That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously."
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"A moral rule is essentially 'advantage-reducing.' It prohibits you doing something you could do that would serve your interests at someone else's expense."
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"To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage."
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"Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first."
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"The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work."
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"If you make the opportunity. you'll be the first in the position to take advantage of it."
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"Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots."
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"We sometimes feel that if a person tromps over us after we've said no, then we must not have been clear. We can get caught in the trap of explaining again and again, meanwhile letting the other person take advantage of us."
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"Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do."
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