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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
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Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
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A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
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Only law can give us freedom.
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
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Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.
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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
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The world remains ever the same.
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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.
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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
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It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
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Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
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The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
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The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
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If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
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If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick
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I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
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