"We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering."
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"Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances."
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"The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture."
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"He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it."
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"What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it."
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"Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself."
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"Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels us in all extremities. Nay, if there were no other comfort in it than the pare exercise of so generous a virtue, even for that single reason a man would not be without it; it is a sovereign antidote against all calamities - even against the fear of death itself."
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"Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it."
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"Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?"
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"Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse."
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"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature."
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"The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself."
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"True love can fear no one."
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"Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher."
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"When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody."
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"Familiarity reduces the greatness of things."
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"Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate."
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"They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn."
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"It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend."
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"The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable"
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