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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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If that's the price of getting together, then I'll be damned if I want to live on the same earth with any…
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Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as…
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us,…
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The works of God are not accomplished when we wish them, but whenever it pleases Him.
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How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old…
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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
— William Hazlitt
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If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . .…
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What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it…
— Jack Kingston
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