"Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant."
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"It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die."
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"Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor."
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"It is the superfluous things for which men sweat."
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"As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit"
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"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."
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"The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns."
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"Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men."
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"Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes."
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"No man was ever wise by chance."
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"Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."
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"Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own."
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"When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive."
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"The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity."
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"Money has never yet made anyone rich."
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"The largest part of goodness is the will to become good."
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"God is near you, is with you, is inside you."
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"There is no easy way from the earth to the stars."
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"Fire proves gold, adversity proves men."
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"What were once vices are the fashion of the day."
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