"Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so."
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"A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats."
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"We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life."
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"The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things."
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"There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life."
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"We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us."
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"It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own ass."
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"If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways."
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"A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself."
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"We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable."
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"No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port."
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"A strong imagination begetteth opportunity."
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"The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene."
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"It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor."
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"Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible."
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"Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart."
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"Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service."
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"No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest of all virtues is true valor) and noble in its cause. No utility either more just or universal than the protection of the repose or defense of the greatness of one's country. The company and daily conversation of so many noble, young and active men cannot but be well-pleasing to you."
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"We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own."
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"Sometimes it is a good choice not to choose at all."
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