"Blame is safer than praise"
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"The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to."
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"He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man."
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"The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd."
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"A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man."
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"The most dangerous thing is illusion."
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"Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously."
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"He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others."
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"It is rare to find a man who believes in his own thoughts or speaks that which he is created to say. As nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing, so nothing is more rare in any man than an act of his own...feel yourself, and be not daunted by things...The light by which we see this world comes out from the soul of the observer."
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"Some people are born very far from home."
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"Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay."
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"Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionaliti es or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle."
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"Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day."
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"Life is short but there is always time for courtesy."
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"Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well."
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"A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us."
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"There is always a best way of doing everything."
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"A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking."
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"Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids."
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"Books are for nothing but to inspire"
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