"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."
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"No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley."
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"You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?"
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"Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life."
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"Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received."
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"We suffer more in imagination than in reality."
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"It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."
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"It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess."
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"Life is long if you know how to use it."
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"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
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"The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation."
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"The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company"
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"Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts."
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"Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach."
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"Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more."
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"To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading."
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"We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole."
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"Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting."
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"The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag."
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"He who asks with timidity invites a refusal."
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