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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies
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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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