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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears
Poverty is the mother of crime
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability
Men exist for the sake of one another
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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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