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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a…
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Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what…
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
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Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care…
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It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
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Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
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Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
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Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi…
— John Dryden
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I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi.
— Frederic Chopin
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The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who…
— Gustav Mahler
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Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut…
— Horace
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Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human…
— Terry Eagleton
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Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art…
— H. L. Mencken
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Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and…
— Henry Louis Mencken
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The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuosi and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke,…
— Kenneth R. Miller
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