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Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows
If you wish to be a writer, write
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it
Freedom is the right to live as we wish
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire
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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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