"If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life."
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"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable."
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"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk."
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"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity."
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"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."
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"Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have."
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"To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil."
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"Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long."
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"A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness."
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"You are your choices."
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"My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works."
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"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."
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"We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them."
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"Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power."
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"Life without the courage to die is slavery."
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"Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart."
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"There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer."
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"It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it."
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"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."
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"While you teach, you learn."
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