"The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds."
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"No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it."
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"The best cure for anger is delay."
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"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."
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"I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling"
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"There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness."
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"It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth."
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"Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them."
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"It is quality rather than quantity that matters."
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"A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment."
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"He who is brave is free."
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"A good mind possesses a kingdom."
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"Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart."
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"The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius."
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"The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you"
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"Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity."
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"Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods."
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"If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared."
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"No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us."
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"It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity."
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