"Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil."
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"To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man."
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"Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit."
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"The quality of life is determined by its activities."
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"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."
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"Character is revealed through action."
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"The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own."
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"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."
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"Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it."
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"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one."
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"All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth."
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"The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree."
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"A promise made must be a promise kept."
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"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."
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"All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself."
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"It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized."
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"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."
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"Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses."
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"Hope is a waking dream."
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"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."
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