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Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much…
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.
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Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
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To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God
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Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a…
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Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
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Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but…
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The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
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I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
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What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?
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Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
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... we must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable blasphemy and…
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As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that…
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Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in…
— William James
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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all…
— Michel de Montaigne
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I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I'll still smoke in a…
— Jean Smart
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The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent…
— C.S. Lewis
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If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other…
— Epictetus
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For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and…
— Aldous Huxley
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