"If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets."
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"Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow."
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"Never was anything great achieved without danger."
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"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too."
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"I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want to. I'm not in the least a religious type. I want to be let alone, to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in."
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"The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools."
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"Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator."
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"An unjust peace is better than a just war."
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"Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion."
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"All wealth is the product of labor."
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"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."
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"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks."
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"It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place."
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"A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring."
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"It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it."
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"Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself."
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"Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself."
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"One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others."
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"Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices."
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"There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk."
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