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It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
Topic: Abuse
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There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.
Topic: Abuse
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Topic: Adversity
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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Topic: Adversity
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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
Topic: All About Love
Source: None
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He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another.
Topic: Ancestry
Source: None
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To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
Topic: Argument
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This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.
Topic: Body
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Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
Topic: Calamity
Source: None
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Topic: Cliches and One-Liners
Source: None
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All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness.
Topic: Cruelty
Source: None
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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
Topic: Death
Source: None
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Topic: Decisions
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Topic: Difficulties
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Topic: Difficulty
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No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Topic: Discipline
Source: None
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Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.
Topic: Fate
Source: None
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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Topic: Fate
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It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him gives me a sort of right to do it.
Topic: Fidelity
Source: None
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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
Topic: Finance and Economics
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.
Topic: Future
Source: None
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The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.
Topic: Glutton
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Goals
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Gratitude
Source: None
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
Topic: Gratitude
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To greed, all nature is insufficient.
Topic: Greed
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Every guilty person is his own hangman.
Topic: Guilt
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Whom they have injured, they also hate.
Topic: Hate
Source: None
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To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
Topic: Health
Source: None
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I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open? -Seneca.
Topic: Heart-quotes
Source: None
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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
Topic: Heartbreak
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The cure for anger is delay.
Topic: Inspirational
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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A man who suffers before it is necessary,
suffers more than is
necessary.
Topic: Inspirational
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Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts.
Topic: Inspirational
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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Topic: Inspirational
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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If wisdom were offered me with the provision that I should keep it shut
up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in
owning anything unshared.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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The fates lead him who will-him who won't they drag.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything
to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live
for thyself.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful when your own self-love might impair your judgement.
Topic: Judgement
Source: None
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The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.
Topic: Kings
Source: None
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It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
Topic: Knowledge
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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.
Topic: Loss
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Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
Topic: Loyalty
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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.. Epictetus, c 200 AD -Seneca.
Topic: Materialism
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
Topic: Mob
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It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Topic: Moderation
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