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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his…
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The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and…
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken…
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that…
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Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by…
— Emile Durkheim
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It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his…
— Samuel Johnson
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The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he…
— Ayn Rand
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A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes…
— Gautama Buddha
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If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.
— Confucius
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What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a menagerie? The…
— John Cowper Powys
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What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the…
— Fernando Pessoa
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