"May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense."
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"Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours."
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"All cruelty springs from weakness."
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"A man's as miserable as he thinks he is."
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"The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can."
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"There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed."
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"Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind."
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"Greed's worst point is its ingratitude."
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"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."
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"If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself."
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"He is most powerful who governs himself."
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"Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind."
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"Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it."
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"It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores."
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"As was his language so was his life."
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"A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant."
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"In war there is no prize for runner-up."
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"It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so."
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"Find a path or make one."
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"He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him."
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