"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim."
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"Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness."
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"All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world."
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"Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men."
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"The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries."
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"I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man."
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"A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller."
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"No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it."
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"Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last."
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"Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view."
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"There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers."
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"There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight."
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"Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself."
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"Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life."
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"To wish to be well is a part of becoming well."
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"A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand."
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"Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb."
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"Men learn while they teach."
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"A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand."
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"Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity."
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