"If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable."
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"Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided."
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"Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration."
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"No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it."
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"If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail."
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"There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy."
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"Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash."
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"Fortune can take away riches, but not courage."
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"It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob."
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"Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it."
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"What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears."
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"With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich."
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"Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs."
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"Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms."
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"The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it."
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"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more."
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"It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so."
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"Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts."
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"Revenge is an inhuman word."
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"The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all that is sought in pardoning. He will spare some and watch over some, because of their youth, and others on account of their ignorance. His clemency will not fall short of justice, but will fulfill it perfectly."
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