"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult"
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"A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer."
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"The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution"
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"No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already."
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"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not."
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"Don't stumble over something behind you."
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"He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it."
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"Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness."
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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful."
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"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right."
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"As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity."
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"Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war."
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"When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy."
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"There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself."
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"It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours."
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"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
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"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."
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"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
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"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."
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"There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay."
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