"Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today."
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"It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred."
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"God never repents of what He has first resolved upon."
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"To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind."
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"It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence."
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"No man is free who is a slave to the flesh."
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"If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions."
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"A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit."
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"Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality."
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"The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance."
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"Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest."
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"Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow."
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"The abundance of books is distraction"
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"After death there is nothing."
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"We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within."
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"That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded."
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"A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty"
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"We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness."
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"A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty."
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"In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul."
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