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There will be many men who will move one against another, holding in their hands a cutting tool. But these will not do each other any injury beyond tiring each other; for, when one pushes forward the other will draw back. But woe to him who comes between them! For he will end by being cut in pieces
In order to prove whether the spirit can speak or not, it is necessary in the first place to define what a voice is and how it is generated
When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction
He who walks straight rarely falls
Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind
Threats alone are the weapons of the threatened man
Fear arises sooner than anything else
We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us...
To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man
Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offences, and they cannot hurt your feelings
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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